Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...
Open source software projects such as Apache and Mozilla present an opportunity for information visualization. Since these projects typically require collaboration between develop...
Michael Ogawa, Kwan-Liu Ma, Christian Bird, Premku...
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...
As agile software development principles and methods are being adopted by large software product organizations it is important to understand the role of software entropy. That is,...
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...