The conduct of collaborative scientific study mediated by the internet — e-Science — is giving rise to a new type of large distributed software project. This paper reports in...
To improve software productivity, when constructing new software systems, developers often reuse existing class libraries or frameworks by invoking their APIs. Those APIs, however...
Abstract. The use of Off-The-Shelf software components in ComponentBased Development implies many challenges. One of them is the lack of available and well-suited data to support s...
The quality evaluation of open source software (OSS) products, e.g., defect estimation and prediction approaches of individual releases, gains importance with increasing OSS adopt...
Dindin Wahyudin, Alexander Schatten, Dietmar Winkl...
Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...