In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
Open Source Software (OSS) projects provide a unique opportunity to gather and analyze publicly available historical data. The Postgres SQL server, for example, has over seven yea...
Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Premkumar T. Devanbu...
—Large frameworks and libraries require extensive developer learning resources, such as documentation and mailing lists, to be useful. Maintaining these learning resources is cha...
FOSS (Free and Open Source System) is repeatedly modied and reused by other FOSS or proprietary software systems. They are released to others under specic licenses whose terms and...
Hybrid measurement-based approaches to worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis combine measured execution times of small program segments using static analysis of the larger sof...