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MSR
2006
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Are refactorings less error-prone than other changes?
Refactorings are program transformations which should preserve the program behavior. Consequently, we expect that during phases when there are mostly refactorings in the change hi...
Peter Weißgerber, Stephan Diehl
ESEM
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Strengthening the empirical analysis of the relationship between Linus' Law and software security
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams
CSMR
2009
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Structural Complexity and Decay in FLOSS Systems: An Inter-repository Study
Past software engineering literature has firmly established that software architectures and the associated code decay over time. Architectural decay is, potentially, a major issu...
Andrea Capiluppi, Karl Beecher
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APSEC
2010
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
The Qualitas Corpus: A Curated Collection of Java Code for Empirical Studies
Abstract--In order to increase our ability to use measurement to support software development practise we need to do more analysis of code. However, empirical studies of code are e...
Ewan D. Tempero, Craig Anslow, Jens Dietrich, Ted ...
GROUP
2007
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Knowledge work artifacts: kernel cousins for free/open source software development
Most empirical studies of peer production have focused on the final products of these efforts (such as software in Free/Open Source projects), but there are also many other knowle...
Margaret S. Elliott, Mark S. Ackerman, Walt Scacch...