5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the context group for the developer based on the characteristic metric values for the developer comprises determining a predetermined number of developers having respective measures of churn or lines of code added that are most similar to corresponding metrics for the developer.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the context group for the developer based on the characteristic metric values for the developer comprises determining a predetermined number of developers having respective measures of churn or lines of code added that are most similar to corresponding metrics for the developer. 6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising selecting the predetermined number of developers from a population of developers comprising developers who contributed source code to any of multiple projects analyzed by a distributed static analysis system.