The Qualitas Corpus: A Curated Collection of Java Code for Empirical Studies

Abstract--In order to increase our ability to use measurement to support software development practise we need to do more analysis of code. However, empirical studies of code are expensive and their results are difficult to compare. We describe the Qualitas Corpus, a large curated collection of open source Java systems. The corpus reduces the cost of performing large empirical studies of code and supports comparison of measurements of the same artifacts. We discuss its design, organisation, and issues associated with its development. Keywords-Empirical studies; curated code corpus; experimental infrastructure

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: APSEC
• Authors: Ewan D. Tempero, Craig Anslow, Jens Dietrich, Ted Han, Jing Li, Markus Lumpe, Hayden Melton, James Noble
• Keywords: APSEC 2010, Code, Empirical Studies, Large Curated Collection, Software Engineering