Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
According to its proponents, open source style software development has the capacity to compete successfully, and perhaps in many cases displace, traditional commercial developmen...
In an empirical study of fourteen widely used open source PHP web applications, we found that the vulnerability density of the aggregate code base decreased from 8.88 vulnerabilit...
James Walden, Maureen Doyle, Grant A. Welch, Micha...
With the advent of open source software repositories the data available for defect prediction in source files increased tremendously. Although traditional statistics turned out t...
Commenting source code has long been a common practice in software development. Compared to source code, comments are more direct, descriptive and easy-to-understand. Comments and...