Open source software development should strive for even greater code maintainability

  • Authors:
  • Ioannis Samoladas;Ioannis Stamelos;Lefteris Angelis;Apostolos Oikonomou

  • Affiliations:
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;Imperial University, London, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Voting systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A study of almost six million lines of code tracks how freely accessible source code holds up against time and multiple iterations.