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SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Empirical evaluation of defect projection models for widely-deployed production software systems
Defect-occurrence projection is necessary for the development of methods to mitigate the risks of software defect occurrences. In this paper, we examine user-reported software def...
Paul Luo Li, Mary Shaw, James D. Herbsleb, Bonnie ...
OSS
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
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
JSS
2006
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14 years 10 months ago
An empirical study into class testability
In this paper we investigate factors of the testability of object-oriented software systems. The starting point is given by a study of the literature to obtain both an initial mod...
Magiel Bruntink, Arie van Deursen
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ISESE
2005
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Managing software change tasks: an exploratory study
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...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
A Study of the Time Dependence of Code Changes
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
Omar Alam, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan