Maintaining software systems becomes more difficult as their size and complexity increase. One factor that makes software maintenance more difficult is the presence of code clones...
Literature on the topic of code cloning often asserts that duplicating code within a software system is a bad practice, that it causes harm to the system's design and should b...
Background: The number of reported empirical studies of Open Source Software (OSS) has continuously been increasing. However, there has been no effort to systematically review the ...
Open source software is often considered to be secure. One factor in this confidence in the security of open source software lies in leveraging large developer communities to find...
Researchers in the field of software engineering economics have associated team factors, such as team size and team experience, with productivity and quality. Since distributed and...