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ICSM
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
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IWPC
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
—A measure of how a class is impacted during design evolution is presented. The history of design changes that involve a given class is the basis for the measure. Classes that ar...
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
MSR
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
—Build systems are responsible for transforming static source code artifacts into executable software. While build systems play such a crucial role in software development and ma...