With the growing economic importance of open source, we need to improve our understanding of how open source software development processes work. The analysis of code contribution...
The research examines the version histories of nine open source software systems to uncover trends and characteristics of how developers commit source code to version control syst...
Abdulkareem Alali, Huzefa H. Kagdi, Jonathan I. Ma...
The quantitative analysis of software projects can provide insights that let us better understand open source and other software development projects. An important variable used in...
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...
Open-source software communities currently face an increasing complexity in managing and distributing software content among their developers and contributors. This is mainly due ...
Serge Abiteboul, Itay Dar, Radu Pop, Gabriel Vasil...