Open source software is often considered to be secure. One factor in this confidence in the security of open source software lies in leveraging large developer communities to find...
Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
Software developers often duplicate source code to replicate functionality. This practice can hinder the maintenance of a software project: bugs may arise when two identical code ...
This appendix contains the details of our case studies out lined in our paper for the 2009 International Conference on Software Maintenance, as well as an expanded discussion se...
Reid Holmes, Rylan Cottrell, Robert J. Walker, J&o...
Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects are people-oriented and knowledge intensive software development environments. Many researchers focused on mailing lists to study coding...
Sulayman K. Sowe, Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angel...