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Your Code as a Crime Scene
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Your Code as a Crime Scene

by Adam Tornhill
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
218 pages
5h 3m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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The techniques in this book are based on how you and your team interact with the code. Most of that information is stored within your version-control system. To analyze it, we need some automated tools to mine and process the data, but there aren’t a lot of tools out there we can use.

To get you started, I’ve put together a suite of open-source tools capable of performing the analyses:

  • Code Maat: Code Maat is a command-line tool used to mine and analyze data from version-control systems.

  • Git: The techniques in this book would work with other types of version-control systems, but we’ll use Git in our examples. You can refer to Code Maat’s web page[1] to get an overview of mining data from Mercurial and Subversion. ...

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