‘‘Industrial strength’’ software development environments (SDEs) must provide facilities to address three essential properties of multi-developer software systems: evoluti...
ABSTRACT: In the context of Internet-based applications where heterogeneous, legacy entities should integrate and cooperate, the efficiency of the software production process is a ...
According to its proponents, open source style software development has the capacity to compete successfully, and perhaps in many cases displace, traditional commercial developmen...
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Software birthmarks are unique and native characteristics of every software component. Two components having similar birthmarks indicate that they are similar in functionality, st...