Prior characterizations of open source projects have been based on the model of a community-founded project. More recently, a second model has emerged, where organizations spinout...
Code duplication, plausibly caused by copying source code and slightly modifying it, is often observed in large systems. Clone detection and documentation have been investigated b...
Magdalena Balazinska, Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenai...
Maintaining software systems becomes more difficult as their size and complexity increase. One factor that makes software maintenance more difficult is the presence of code clones...
This paper presents results of a study of the effect of global variables on the quantity of dependence in general and on the presence of dependence clusters in particular. The pa...
David Binkley, Mark Harman, Youssef Hassoun, Syed ...
This paper introduces a collaborative project OSSmole which collects, shares, and stores comparable data and analyses of free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) development f...