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ICSM
2003
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Populating a Release History Database from Version Control and Bug Tracking Systems
Version control and bug tracking systems contain large amounts of historical information that can give deep insight into the evolution of a software project. Unfortunately, these ...
Michael Fischer, Martin Pinzger, Harald Gall
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
The Chaos of Software Development
In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt
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ICSM
2003
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Critical Success Factors in Software Maintenance-A Case Study
: The objective of this paper is to identify those factors, which are critical to the success of a maintenance operation in general and to apply them to a particular maintenance pr...
Harry M. Sneed, Peter Brössler
ECBS
2009
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Optimisation Process for Maintaining Evolvability during Software Evolution
Software systems have to be changed continuously and evolutionarily throughout the whole time of their development and usage. Meanwhile, the software systems have to remain flexi...
Robert Brcina, Stephan Bode, Matthias Riebisch
MSR
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Examining the evolution of code comments in PostgreSQL
It is common, especially in large software systems, for developers to change code without updating its associated comments due to their unfamiliarity with the code or due to time ...
Zhen Ming Jiang, Ahmed E. Hassan