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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...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
There can be no doubt that a great many technologies have been added to Linux TM over the past ten years. What is less well-known is that it is often necessary to introduce a larg...
JSS
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Common coupling (sharing global variables across modules) is widely accepted as a measure of software quality and maintainability; a low level of common coupling is necessary (but...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2008
ACM
The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
SPLC
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Abstract. Understanding the challenges faced by real projects in evolving variability models, is a prerequisite for providing adequate support for such undertakings. We study the e...