analyzing traffic-light transitions

I've written a short ruby script to extract some measurements from a sample of about 500 practice sessions. I looked at transitions between red, amber, and green traffic-lights:
  • red means one or more tests failed
  • amber means the tests did not run (eg syntax error)
  • green means the tests ran and all passed
The first column is average number of lines added/deleted.
The second column is colour → colour transition.
The third column is sample size.

3.94ambergreen447
4.65amberred379
4.67amberamber1462
5.39redgreen607
6.01redred604
7.52greenred420
13.65greenamber436
17.67redamber432
22.18greengreen598

Here's how I interpret the results:
  • If you're at red or green and you make a small change (5.39,6.01,7.52) you're likely to stay at red or green.
  • If you're at red or green and you make a large change (13.65,17.67) you're likely to transition to amber.
  • There is a big spike in the number of amberamber transitions (1462). I speculate that long sequences of these transitions are occuring after a large 13.65 greenamber or 17.67 redamber transition.
  • I think the greengreen value of 22.18 is larger than it should be because it's including renaming a file.


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