Exploring uncertainty in GitHub OSS projects
Naoyasu Ubayashi, Hokuto Muraoka, Daiki Muramoto, Yasutaka Kamei, Ryosuke Sato · 2018
Recently, many developers begin to notice that uncertainty is a crucial problem in software development. Unfortunately, no one knows how often uncertainty appears or what kinds of uncertainty exist in actual projects, because there are no empirical studies on uncertainty. To deal with this problem, we conduct a large-scale empirical study analyzing commit messages and revision histories of 1,444 OSS projects selected from the GitHub repositories.