Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Code Improvement Practices at Meta

As of 23 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 48 of 48 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2504.12517.

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This paper cites Does code decay? assessing the evidence from change management data,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Does code decay? assessing the evidence from change management data,

Reference 1

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This paper cites An exploration of technical debt,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta An exploration of technical debt,

Reference 2

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This paper cites Formulation and preliminary test of an empirical theory of coordination in software engineering,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Formulation and preliminary test of an empirical theory of coordination in software engineering,

Reference 3

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This paper cites Continuous software engineering and beyond: trends and challenges,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Continuous software engineering and beyond: trends and challenges,

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This paper cites Taplin, Move fast and break things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon have cornered culture and what it means for all of us.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Taplin, Move fast and break things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon have cornered culture and what it means for all of us

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This paper cites Refactoring for changeability: A way to go?.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Refactoring for changeability: A way to go?

Reference 6

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This paper cites A case study on the impact of refactoring on quality and productivity in an agile team,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta A case study on the impact of refactoring on quality and productivity in an agile team,

Reference 7

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This paper cites A field study of refactoring challenges and benefits,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta A field study of refactoring challenges and benefits,

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This paper cites Quantifying and mitigating turnover-induced knowledge loss: case studies of chrome and a project at avaya,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Quantifying and mitigating turnover-induced knowledge loss: case studies of chrome and a project at avaya,

Reference 9

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This paper cites Fowler, Refactoring.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Fowler, Refactoring

Reference 10

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This paper cites When does a refactoring induce bugs? an empirical study,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta When does a refactoring induce bugs? an empirical study,

Reference 11

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This paper cites Empirical evaluation of the impact of object- oriented code refactoring on quality attributes: A systematic literature review,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Empirical evaluation of the impact of object- oriented code refactoring on quality attributes: A systematic literature review,

Reference 12

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This paper cites Quantifying the effect of code smells on maintenance effort,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Quantifying the effect of code smells on maintenance effort,

Reference 13

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This paper cites Why we refactor? confessions of github contributors,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Why we refactor? confessions of github contributors,

Reference 14

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This paper cites Why developers refactor source code: A mining-based study,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Why developers refactor source code: A mining-based study,

Reference 15

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This paper cites Six strategies for generalizing software engineering theories,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Six strategies for generalizing software engineering theories,

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This paper cites On the reproducibility of empirical software engineering studies based on data retrieved from development repositories,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta On the reproducibility of empirical software engineering studies based on data retrieved from development repositories,

Reference 17

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This paper cites Experiences from replicating a case study to investigate reproducibility of software development,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Experiences from replicating a case study to investigate reproducibility of software development,

Reference 18

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Repro- ducibility and credibility in empirical software engineering: A case study based on a systematic literature review of the use of the szz algorithm,

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This paper cites Dead code removal at meta: Automatically deleting millions of lines of code and petabytes of deprecated data,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Dead code removal at meta: Automatically deleting millions of lines of code and petabytes of deprecated data,

Reference 20

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Assessing the state of software in a large enterprise,

Reference 21

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This paper cites Beliefs, practices, and personalities of software engineers: a survey in a large software company,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Beliefs, practices, and personalities of software engineers: a survey in a large software company,

Reference 22

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Leffingwell, Scaling software agility: best practices for large enterprises

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This paper cites Prioritization of classes for refac- toring: A step towards improvement in software quality,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Prioritization of classes for refac- toring: A step towards improvement in software quality,

Reference 24

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta The dimensions of maintenance,

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This paper cites Identifying reasons for software changes using historic databases,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta Identifying reasons for software changes using historic databases,

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This paper cites An exploratory study on self-admitted technical debt,.

Code Improvement Practices at Meta An exploratory study on self-admitted technical debt,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Does gamification work?–a literature review of empirical studies on gamification,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Gamification in theory and action: A survey,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Lupton, The quantified self

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Modeling the centrality of developer output with software supply chains,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Measuring productivity impact with diff authoring time,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Developer fluency: Achieving true mastery in software projects,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta A new status index derived from sociometric analysis,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta A complexity measure,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Matching methods for causal inference: A review and a look forward,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Software developers’ perceptions of productivity,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Putting it all together: Using socio-technical networks to predict failures,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Predicting defects using network analysis on dependency graphs,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Categorizing bugs with social networks: a case study on four open source software communities,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta The small-world effect: The influence of macro-level properties of developer collaboration networks on open-source project success,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Using social network analysis for mining collaboration data in a defect tracking system for risk and vulnerability analysis,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Characterizing and understanding software developer networks in security development,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Boehm, Software Engineering Economics

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Missing data in software engineering,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Software support tools and experimental work,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Organizational volatility and its effects on software defects,

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Code Improvement Practices at Meta Engineering big data solutions,

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Pith citing papers

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Will It Break in Production? Metric-Driven Prediction of Residual Defects in Python Systems cites this paper.

Will It Break in Production? Metric-Driven Prediction of Residual Defects in Python Systems Code Improvement Practices at Meta

Reference 46

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