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 ...
As software grows more complex, software developers’ productivity is increasingly defined by their ability to effectively reuse code. Even APIs (application programming interfac...
Jeffrey Stylos, Benjamin Graf, Daniela K. Busse, C...
As the number of available Web services increases there is a growing demand to realise complex business processes by combining and reusing available Web services. The reuse and co...
Frameworks and libraries change their APIs during evolution. Migrating an application to the new API is tedious and disrupts the development process. Although some tools and techn...
Code duplication is a serious problem with no easy solution, even in industrial-strength code. Single inheritance cannot provide for effective code reuse in all situations, and s...
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Philip J. Quitslund, Andre...