Limitations of the Hotspot Criteria
There is a limitation when looking at hotspots—when is a particular module hot? We’ve just used whatever happened to be the maximum number of revisions in the specified temporal period. What if that number was 3? Or 845? Without any context, they’re just numbers.
In Part III, you’ll learn about analyses that normalize the data. For now we’re going to ignore that; in practice, the non-normalized data we’re working on is generally good enough as a guide. We use the relative rank within a codebase to identify hotspots. Before we move on, I just wanted you to be aware of when this might not work.
The hotspots you’ll ...
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