Social networking systems help people maintain connections to their friends, enabling awareness, communication, and collaboration, especially at a distance. In many studies of coo...
Data races indicate serious concurrency bugs such as order, atomicity, and sequential consistency violations. Races are difficult to find and fix, often manifesting only in deploy...
Michael D. Bond, Katherine E. Coons, Kathryn S. Mc...
Studying the release-time activities of a software project — that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release — can provide insights into both the de...
In typical open source software development, developers use revision control systems for product management, mailing list systems for human communications, and bug tracking system...
Repository-based revision control systems such as CVS, RCS, Subversion, and GIT, are extremely useful tools that enable software developers to concurrently modify source code, man...