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CC
2009
Springer
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Parsing C/C++ Code without Pre-processing
Abstract. It is difficult to develop style-preserving source-to-source transformation engines for C and C++. The main reason is not the complexity of those languages, but the use o...
Yoann Padioleau
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Should I contribute to this discussion?
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...
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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Production programming in the classroom
Students in programming courses generally write “toy” programs, even when the size of the assigned projects is large. Programming assignments are written, superficially teste...
Eric E. Allen, Robert Cartwright, Charles Reis
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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Exploring Usability Discussions in Open Source Development
The public nature of discussion in open source projects provides a valuable resource for understanding the mechanisms of open source software development. In this paper we explore...
Michael B. Twidale, David M. Nichols
OSS
2007
Springer
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From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: An Empirical Study of the Lifecycle of Volunteer Community Projects
Some free software and open source projects have been extremely successful in the past. The success of a project is often related to the number of developers it can attract: a larg...
Andrea Capiluppi, Martin Michlmayr
HICSS
2007
IEEE
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Analysis of Activity in the Open Source Software Development Community
— Open Source Software is computer software for which the source code is publicly open for inspection, modification, and redistribution. While research of a few, large, successf...
Scott Christley, Gregory R. Madey
WCRE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Bayesian Network Based Approach for Change Coupling Prediction
Source code coupling and change history are two important data sources for change coupling analysis. The popularity of public open source projects in recent years makes both sourc...
Yu Zhou, Michael Würsch, Emanuel Giger, Haral...
ICSM
2008
IEEE
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Duplicate bug reports considered harmful ... really?
In a survey we found that most developers have experienced duplicated bug reports, however, only few considered them as a serious problem. This contradicts popular wisdom that con...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmerma...
OSS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Heartbeat: Measuring Active User Base and Potential User Interest in FLOSS Projects
This paper presents a novel method and algorithm to measure the size of an open source project’s user base and the level of potential user interest that it generates. Previously ...
Andrea Wiggins, James Howison, Kevin Crowston
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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The Commit Size Distribution of Open Source Software
With the growing economic importance of open source, we need to improve our understanding of how open source software development processes work. The analysis of code contribution...
Oliver Arafat, Dirk Riehle