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MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 22 days ago
2010
ACM
—Free and open source software strongly promotes the reuse of source code. Some open source Java components/libraries are distributed as jar archives only containing the bytecode...
IEE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
With Java 5 annotations, we note a marked increase in tools that can statically detect potential null dereferences. To be effective such tools require that developers annotate decl...
ECOOP
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
With the advent of Java 5 annotations, we note a marked increase in the availability of tools that can statically detect potential null dereferences. For such tools to be truly eff...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
Can we predict locations of future refactoring based on the development history? In an empirical study of open source projects we found that attributes of software evolution data ...