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ECLIPSE
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Supporting empirical studies by non-intrusive collection and visualization of fine-grained revision history
This paper presents a code-revision history collection and visualization Eclipse plugin for use in empirical studies of programmers. The revision history is collected non-intrusiv...
Jacky Chan, Alan Chu, Elisa L. A. Baniassad
OSS
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: An Empirical Study of the Lifecycle of Volunteer Community Projects
Some free software and open source projects have been extremely successful in the past. The success of a project is often related to the number of developers it can attract: a larg...
Andrea Capiluppi, Martin Michlmayr
ICSM
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Tracking Concerns in Evolving Source Code: An Empirical Study
The association between the description of a concern (e.g., a feature) and the code that implements it is valuable information that can degrade as the code of a system evolves. We...
Martin P. Robillard
EUROMICRO
2004
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Using Academic Courses for Empirical Validation of Software Development Processes
Software Process Improvement needs sound empirical data gathered from a range of empirical studies such as controlled experiments or case studies. However, conducting empirical st...
Marcus Ciolkowski, Dirk Muthig, Jörg Rech
SIGSOFT
2001
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
An empirical methodology for introducing software processes
There is a growing interest in empirical study in software engineering, both for validating mature technologies and for guiding improvements of less-mature technologies. This pape...
Forrest Shull, Jeffrey Carver, Guilherme Travassos