I'm sure the top comment here will be something like "this is invalid because no way can you assign a numerical value to code quality! wtf?!" I'm withholding m

I'm sure the top comment here will be something like "this is invalid because no way can you assign a numerical value to code quality! wtf?!" I'm withholding my own judgement on that. For anyone curious, the authors are coming up with a code quality score using an open-source tool called SoftWipe[0]. From the paper: > SoftWipe is an open source tool and benchmark to assess, rate, and review scientific software written in C or C++ with respect to coding standard adherence. The coding standard adherence is assessed using a set of static and dynamic code analysers such as Lizard (https://github.com/terryyin/lizard https://github.com/terryyin/lizard) or the Clang address sanitiser (https: //clang.llvm.org/). It returns a score between 0 (low adherence) and 10 (good adherence). In order to simplify our experimental setup, we excluded the compilation warnings, which require a difficult to automate compilation of the assessed software, from the analysis using the --exclude-compilation option. [0]: https://github.com/adrianzap/softwipe https://github.com/adrianzap/softwipe