Can we predict locations of future refactoring based on the development history? In an empirical study of open source projects we found that attributes of software evolution data ...
Jacek Ratzinger, Thomas Sigmund, Peter Vorburger, ...
Literature on the topic of code cloning often asserts that duplicating code within a software system is a bad practice, that it causes harm to the system's design and should b...
Real production code contains lots of knowledge—on the domain, on the architecture, and on the environment. How can we leverage this knowledge in new projects? Using a novel lig...
Natalie Gruska, Andrzej Wasylkowski, Andreas Zelle...
Background: The relation between software effort and size has been modeled in literature as exponential, in the sense that the natural logarithm of effort is expressed as a linear...
Software developers have long known that project success requires a robust understanding of both technical and social linkages. However, research has largely considered these inde...
Anita Sarma, Larry Maccherone, Patrick Wagstrom, J...