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...
With the success of libre (free, open source) software, a new type of software compilation has become increasingly common. Such compilations, often referred to as ‘distributions...
Publicly accessible bug report repositories maintained by free / open source development communities provide vast stores of data about distributed software problem management (SWP...
Programmers often have to perform change tasks that involve unfamiliar portions of a software system’s code base. To help inform the design of software development tools intende...
Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Ga...
Software archives contain historical information about the development process of a software system. Using data mining techniques rules can be extracted from these archives. In th...