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SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
The future of research in free/open source software development
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) development is not the same an Software Engineering (SE). Why this is so is unclear and open to various interpretations. Both address the challeng...
Walt Scacchi
CSMR
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Structural Complexity and Decay in FLOSS Systems: An Inter-repository Study
Past software engineering literature has firmly established that software architectures and the associated code decay over time. Architectural decay is, potentially, a major issu...
Andrea Capiluppi, Karl Beecher
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
A Study of the Time Dependence of Code Changes
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
Omar Alam, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 4 days ago
The Construction of Peers and Artifacts: The Organizing Role of "Programming Guidelines"
In this paper, we1 study new organizational forms for production processes that emerge in large scale Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. We will focus on the textua...
Vincenzo D'Andrea, Stefano De Paoli, Maurizio Teli