Mihai Codoban, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Danny Dig, and Brian Bailey.
Software history under the lens: A study on why and how developers
examine it. In ICSME 2015, pages 1–10, 2015.
“Software history is indispensable for developers.
Of the 217 developers surveyed in this work, 85% find software history
important to their development activities and 61% need to refer to
history at least several times a day.”
More benefits:
Knowledge acquisition (Pham et al., 2013)
End-users take advantage of the software history (Kuttal et al., 2014)
Research (co-changes, defect prediction, mining, etc.)