Our article "Software evolution: the lifetime of fine-grained elements" showing that code lines live unmodified for ~2.5 years was in the top 5 most-viewed #ProgrammingLanguages and #SoftwareEngineering articles published in @thePeerJ journal in 2021!
Earlier this year @louridas and I published a study showing that software elements tend to live for a long time. https://t.co/LPZW1uyRpG Corollary: If your code reviews and CI allow the integration of low quality code, this will become untouchable and burden you forever.
@allenholub As another data point, we analyzed lifetime events in 3.3 billion source code elements from 89 revision control repositories. Through statistical analysis we found that code lines are durable, with a median lifespan of about 2.4 years. https://t.co/LPZW1uhgy8
#Software evolution: the lifetime of fine-grained elements. New research from Spinellis et al. @uoaofficial @tudelft @ucl published in @PeerJCompSci https://t.co/kHYP88iIHT
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