Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
Software developers have long known that project success requires a robust understanding of both technical and social linkages. However, research has largely considered these inde...
Anita Sarma, Larry Maccherone, Patrick Wagstrom, J...
An important element of understanding a software code base is to identify the repetitive patterns of code it contains and how these evolve over time. Some patterns are useful to t...
Software repositories are rich sources of information about the software development process. Mining the information stored in them has been shown to provide interesting insights ...
Source code cloning does not happen within a single system only. It can also occur between one system and another. We use the term code sibling to refer to a code clone that evolv...