—Free and open source software strongly promotes the reuse of source code. Some open source Java components/libraries are distributed as jar archives only containing the bytecode...
Abstract—Development mailing lists play a central role in facilitating communication in open source projects. Since these lists frequently host design and project discussions, kn...
Walid Ibrahim, Nicolas Bettenburg, Emad Shihab, Br...
Abstract—Change prediction helps developers by recommending program entities that will have to be changed alongside the entities currently being changed. To evaluate their accura...
The need for automated software engineering tools and techniques continues to grow as the size and complexity of studied systems and analysis techniques increase. Software enginee...
-- A bug-tracking system such as Bugzilla contains bug reports (BRs) collected from various sources such as development teams, testing teams, and end users. When bug reporters subm...