Modern software is often developed over many years with hundreds of thousands of commits. Commit metadata is a rich source of social characteristics, including the commit’s time...
Code ownership transfer or succession is a crucial ingredient in open source code reuse and in offshoring projects. Measuring succession can help understand factors that affect ...
Large software projects often require a programmer to make changes to unfamiliar source code. This paper presents the results of a formative observational study of seven professio...
Robert DeLine, Amir Khella, Mary Czerwinski, Georg...
The transfer of entire projects to offshore locations, the aging and renewal of core developers in legacy products, the recruiting in fast growing Internet companies, and the part...
In this paper, we1 study new organizational forms for production processes that emerge in large scale Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. We will focus on the textua...
Vincenzo D'Andrea, Stefano De Paoli, Maurizio Teli