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SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Creating and evolving developer documentation: understanding the decisions of open source contributors
Developer documentation helps developers learn frameworks and libraries. To better understand how documentation in open source projects is created and maintained, we performed a q...
Barthélémy Dagenais, Martin P. Robil...
WCRE
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Source versus Object Code Extraction for Recovering Software Architecture
The architecture of many large software systems is rarely documented and if documented it is usually out of date. To support developers maintaining and evolving these systems, an ...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Zhen Ming Jiang, Richard C. Holt
MSR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Using evolutionary annotations from change logs to enhance program comprehension
Evolutionary annotations are descriptions of how source code evolves over time. Typical source comments, given their static nature, are usually inadequate for describing how a pro...
Daniel M. Germán, Peter C. Rigby, Margaret-...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
13 years 10 months ago
License integration patterns: Addressing license mismatches in component-based development
In this paper we address the problem of combining software components with different and possibly incompatible legal licenses to create a software application that does not viola...
Daniel M. Germán, Ahmed E. Hassan
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
A Study of the Time Dependence of Code Changes
—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...
Omar Alam, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan