@inproceedings{Lu2019,

title = {But Do Commit Messages Matter? An Empirical Association Analysis with Technical Debt},

author = {Chien Lu},

editor = {Nyyti Saarimäki and Valentina Lenarduzzi and Davide Taibi},

url = {https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202002132060},

issn = {1613-0073},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-12-17},

booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

volume = {2520},

pages = {45-53},

publisher = {CEUR-WS},

abstract = {An empirical analysis is conducted to investigate the association of the content of commit messages and technical debt. The analysis is based on 33 open-source Apache JAVA projects. Structural Topic Modelling, a recently developed text mining technique is employed for sophisticated analysis. The result shows that the certain content of commit messages such as empty messages are potentially associated with Technical Debt.},

keywords = {Commit messages, Technical debt, Text mining},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}