ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOURCE CODE FILE SIZES

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作者：
Herraiz, Israel [1 ]
German, Daniel M. [2 ]
Hassan, Ahmed E. [3 ]
机构：
[1] Tech Univ Madrid, Madrid, Spain
[2] Univ Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
[3] Queens Univ, Kingston, ON, Canada
来源：
ICSOFT 2011: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE AND DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 2 | 2011年
关键词：
Mining software repositories; Software size estimation; Open source;
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TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号：
0812 ;
摘要：
Source code size is an estimator of software effort. Size is also often used to calibrate models and equations to estimate the cost of software. The distribution of source code file sizes has been shown in the literature to be a lognormal distribution. In this paper, we measure the size of a large collection of software (the Debian GNU/Linux distribution version 5.0.2), and we find that the statistical distribution of its source code file sizes follows a double Pareto distribution. This means that large files are to be found more often than predicted by the lognormal distribution, therefore the previously proposed models underestimate the cost of software.
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页数：10
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