Breaks and Code Quality: Investigating the Impact of Forgetting on Software Development. A Registered Report

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00760v3
• Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 10:32:18 GMT
• Title: Breaks and Code Quality: Investigating the Impact of Forgetting on Software Development. A Registered Report
• Authors: Dario Amoroso d'Aragona and Luca Pascarella and Andrea Janes and Valentina Lenarduzzi and Rafael Penaloza and Davide Taibi
• Abstract summary: It is crucial to ensure that developers have a clear understanding of the and can work efficiently and effectively even after long interruptions. This registered report proposes an empirical study aimed at investigating the impact of the developer's activity breaks duration and different code quality properties.
• Score: 15.438443553618896
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Developers interrupting their participation in a project might slowly forget critical information about the code, such as its intended purpose, structure, the impact of external dependencies, and the approach used for implementation. Forgetting the implementation details can have detrimental effects on software maintenance, comprehension, knowledge sharing, and developer productivity, resulting in bugs, and other issues that can negatively influence the software development process. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure that developers have a clear understanding of the codebase and can work efficiently and effectively even after long interruptions. This registered report proposes an empirical study aimed at investigating the impact of the developer's activity breaks duration and different code quality properties. In particular, we aim at understanding if the amount of activity in a project impact the code quality, and if developers with different activity profiles show different impacts on code quality. The results might be useful to understand if it is beneficial to promote the practice of developing multiple projects in parallel, or if it is more beneficial to reduce the number of projects each developer contributes.

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