Characterizing and identifying reverted commits

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: YAN, Meng, XIA, Xin, LO, David, HASSAN, Ahmed E., LI, Shanping
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• الموضوعات: Empirical study; Identification model; Feature engineering; Reverted commits; Software Engineering
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4357; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5360/viewcontent/Reverted_commits_emse_2019_afv.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

In practice, a popular and coarse-grained approach for recovering from a problematic commit is to revert it (i.e., undoing the change). However, reverted commits could induce some issues for software development, such as impeding the development progress and increasing the difficulty for maintenance...