Existing studies on problem reports in open source projects focus primarily on the analysis of the general category of problem reports, or limit their attention to observations on...
In industrial practice, information on the software field quality of a product is available too late in the software lifecycle to guide affordable corrective action. An important ...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie Williams, Mladen A. Vo...
The C language is among the most widely used in the world, particularly for critical infrastructure software. C programs depend upon macros processed using the C preprocessor, but...
Most current software systems contain undocumented high-level ideas implemented across multiple files and modules. When developers perform program maintenance tasks, they often wa...
David Shepherd, Zachary P. Fry, Emily Hill, Lori L...
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...