Apples vs. oranges?: an exploration of the challenges of comparing the source code of two software systems

Authors:
Daniel M. German;Julius Davies
Affiliations:
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada;University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Year:
2011

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Abstract

We attempt to compare the source code of two Java IDE systems: Netbeans and Eclipse. The result of this experiment shows that many factors, if ignored, could risk a bias in the results, and we posit various observations that should be taken into consideration to minimize such risk.