A Quantitative Study of Java Software Buildability

12/04/2017

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by   Matúš Sulír, et al.

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Researchers, students and practitioners often encounter a situation when the build process of a third-party software system fails. In this paper, we aim to confirm this observation present mainly as anecdotal evidence so far. Using a virtual environment simulating a programmer's one, we try to fully automatically build target archives from the source code of over 7,200 open source Java projects. We found that more than 38 Build log analysis reveals the largest portion of errors are dependency-related. We also conduct an association study of factors affecting build success.