Our approach to better understand the nature of collaboration in open-source software (OSS) development is to view it as a participative system, where people and artifacts are int...
To improve software productivity, when constructing new software systems, developers often reuse existing class libraries or frameworks by invoking their APIs. Those APIs, however...
Testing can be difficult to integrate into software development. Approaches to software testing in relation to implementing software are based on the V-model of testing. The softw...
Frameworks provide means to reuse existing design and functionality, but first require developers to understand how to use them. Learning the correct usage of a framework can be ...
Clones are code segments that have been created by copying-and-pasting from other code segments. Clones occur often in large software systems. It is reported that 5 to 50% of the ...