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ICSM
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Who are Source Code Contributors and How do they Change?
—Determining who are the copyright owners of a software system is important as they are the individuals and organizations that license the software to its users, and ultimately t...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán
ESEM
2010
ACM
14 years 8 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
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
15 years 2 months ago
An exploratory study of the evolution of software licensing
Free and open source software (FOSS) is distributed and made available to users under different software licenses, mentioned in FOSS code by means of licensing statements. Variou...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán, Ya...
ESEM
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Static Members and Cycles in Java Software
The static modifier is a convenient way to make class members "global" in object-oriented software systems. Given this, we wondered if static members significantly contr...
Hayden Melton, Ewan D. Tempero