A Longitudinal Study of Static Analysis Warning Evolution and the Effects of PMD on Software Quality in Apache Open Source Projects

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Trautsch, Alexander, Herbold, Steffen, Grabowski, Jens
• Format: Paper Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 27.08.2020
• Subjects: Best practice; Building codes; Computer Science - Software Engineering; Open source software; Software development; Source code; Trends; Warning; Workflow

Automated static analysis tools (ASATs) have become a major part of the software development workflow. Acting on the generated warnings, i.e., changing the code indicated in the warning, should be part of, at latest, the code review phase. Despite this being a best practice in software development,...