Inspect the Modus Operandi of a Code Change
During the crash course in Learn Geographical Profiling of Crimes, you saw how linking related crimes allows predictions, which in turn enables possible counter-steps. We can do the same with code.
In programming, version-control data lets us trace changes over a series of commits to detect patterns. One prominent pattern is called change coupling. Change coupling means that two (or more) modules evolve together over time. As such, change coupling implies a temporal dependency, which cannot be detected in code alone; a static snapshot of code lacks the evolutionary perspective.
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