113 search results - page 2 / 23 » The Contribution of Free Software to Software Evolution |
MSR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
With the success of libre (free, open source) software, a new type of software compilation has become increasingly common. Such compilations, often referred to as ‘distributions...
ISESE
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Is the nature of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution fundamentally different from that of the traditional and commercially available software systems? Lehman and others conducted...
SEDE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
The ability to model the evolution of software technology trends is valuable to many stakeholders in industry, academia, and government. Yet we often depend exclusively on the opi...
ISSRE
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Software Fault Tree Analysis (SFTA) provides a structured way to reason about the safety or reliability of a software system. As such, SFTA is widely used in missioncritical appli...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
2009
IEEE
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...