Our approach to better understand the nature of collaboration in open-source software (OSS) development is to view it as a participative system, where people and artifacts are int...
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
We report on the fourth in a series of studies on the reliability of application programs in the face of random input. Over the previous 15 years, we have studied the reliability ...
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...
Software developers are constantly required to modify and adapt application features in response to changing requirements. The problem is that just by reading the source code, it ...