Seminar - OSS and quality metrics

Supervisor: Maxi (haering@cs.uni-bonn.de)

(Some?) open source projects use labels that show some metric of the code, e.g., code coverage.

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So, users of these projects can estimate the quality of the project. Also, security researchers can relate that to the effectiveness of the methods. Starting with a list of important projects on GitHub [0], your task is to research the usage of these labels and generate an overview.

Your task

  • Research the use and presentation of labels on GitHub
  • Starting questions:
    • What labels are in use?
    • Where are they presented?
    • What are the values (e.g., How many projects have a code coverage of x%, ..)?
    • What are differences based on, e.g., number of lines of code, number of maintainers, …

Literature to start with:

Example label/metric: https://chaoss.community/metric-test-coverage/, https://about.codecov.io/, https://codeql.github.com/, https://github.com/ossf/scorecard

0: List of important projects selected by OpenSSF: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ONZ4qeMq8xmeCHX03lIgIYE4MEXVfVL6oj05lbuXTDM/

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Last updated on Jan 1, 0001