Programmers often have to perform change tasks that involve unfamiliar portions of a software system’s code base. To help inform the design of software development tools intende...
Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Ga...
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) development is not the same an Software Engineering (SE). Why this is so is unclear and open to various interpretations. Both address the challeng...
Cohesion is one of the fundamental measures of the 'goodness' of a software design. The most accepted and widely studied object-oriented cohesion metric is Chidamber and...
Test case prioritization provides a way to run test cases with the highest priority earliest. Numerous empirical studies have shown that prioritization can improve a test suite...
Is the nature of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution fundamentally different from that of the traditional and commercially available software systems? Lehman and others conducted...