Motivation – This research aims at investigating emerging roles and forms of participation fostering design-use mediation during the Open Source Software design process Research...
To improve software productivity, when constructing new software systems, developers often reuse existing class libraries or frameworks by invoking their APIs. Those APIs, however...
The paper proposes a new measure for the cohesion of classes in Object-Oriented software systems. It is based on the analysis of latent topics embedded in comments and identifiers...
Yixun Liu, Denys Poshyvanyk, Rudolf Ferenc, Tibor ...
Software peer review has proven to be a successful technique in open source software (OSS) development. In contrast to industry, where reviews are typically assigned to specific ...
Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...