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ISESE
2005
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Managing software change tasks: an exploratory study
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...
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
13 years 8 months ago
An exploratory study of the evolution of software licensing
Free and open source software (FOSS) is distributed and made available to users under different software licenses, mentioned in FOSS code by means of licensing statements. Variou...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán, Ya...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Searching and skimming: An exploratory study
Source code search is an important activity for programmers working on a change task to a software system. As part of a larger project to improve tool support for finding informa...
Jamie Starke, Chris Luce, Jonathan Sillito
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluation of Semantic Interference Detection in Parallel Changes: an Exploratory Experiment
Parallel developments are becoming increasingly prevalent in the building and evolution of large-scale software systems. Our previous studies of a large industrial project showed ...
Danhua Shao, Sarfraz Khurshid, Dewayne E. Perry
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Learning from project history: a case study for software development
The lack of lightweight communication channels and other technical and sociological difficulties make it hard for new members of a non-collocated software development team to lea...
Davor Cubranic, Gail C. Murphy, Janice Singer, Kel...