In order to determine a success criterion for open-source software projects, we analyzed 122,205 projects in the SourceForge database. There were 80,597 projects with no downloads...
Dror G. Feitelson, Gillian Z. Heller, Stephen R. S...
: The decision of using existing software components versus building from scratch custom software is one of the most complex and important choices of the entire development/integra...
Sergio Areias, Daniela Carneiro da Cruz, Pedro Ran...
—Free and open source software strongly promotes the reuse of source code. Some open source Java components/libraries are distributed as jar archives only containing the bytecode...
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...