The popularity of empirical methods in software engineering research is on the rise. Surveys, experiments, metrics, case studies, and field studies are examples of empirical method...
Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development practice that has been used sporadically for decades. With this practice, a software engineer cycles minute-by-minute betwee...
Nachiappan Nagappan, E. Michael Maximilien, Thirum...
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
Modern software is often developed over many years with hundreds of thousands of commits. Commit metadata is a rich source of social characteristics, including the commit’s time...
Proponents of open source style software development claim that better software is produced using this model compared with the traditional closed model. However, there is little em...
Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angelis, Apostolos Oiko...