Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analy...
Can engaging students in free and open source software (FOSS) pique their interest in computer science? This paper describes an introductory computer science course that introduce...
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...
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
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...