Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
In many libre (free, open source) software projects, most of the development is performed by a relatively small number of persons, the “core team”. The stability and permanenc...
Much research on open source software development concentrates on developer lists and other software repositories to investigate what motivates professional software developers to...
Sulayman K. Sowe, Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angel...
Abstract—In Open Source System (OSS) development, software components are often imported and reused; for this reason we might expect that files are copied in multiple projects (...
The paper discusses the motivation for, heritage, architecture and future development plans of the FuzzyCOPE software environment. FuzzyCOPE is a free software environment for tea...