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ESEM
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Strengthening the empirical analysis of the relationship between Linus' Law and software security
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams
IWSM
2007
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Non-Functional Requirements Size Measurement Method (NFSM) with COSMIC-FFP
Abstract. Non-functional requirements (NFRs) of software systems are an important source of uncertainty in effort estimation. Furthermore, quantitatively approaching NFR early in a...
Mohamad Kassab, Olga Ormandjieva, Maya Daneva, Ala...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Predicting faults using the complexity of code changes
Predicting the incidence of faults in code has been commonly associated with measuring complexity. In this paper, we propose complexity metrics that are based on the code change p...
Ahmed E. Hassan
ICSE
2012
IEEE-ACM
13 years 2 months ago
What make long term contributors: Willingness and opportunity in OSS community
—To survive and succeed, software projects need to attract and retain contributors. We model the individual’s chances to become a valuable contributor through her capacity, wil...
Minghui Zhou, Audris Mockus
ESE
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
"Cloning considered harmful" considered harmful: patterns of cloning in software
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...
Cory Kapser, Michael W. Godfrey