One of the key goals of open source development is the sharing of knowledge, experience, and solutions that pertain to a software system and its problem domain. Source code clonin...
Raihan Al-Ekram, Cory Kapser, Richard C. Holt, Mic...
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...
In this article, we describe the results from our survey in the ITdepartment of a large Oil and Gas company in Norway (Statoil ASA), in order to characterize developers’ views o...
Odd Petter N. Slyngstad, Anita Gupta, Reidar Conra...
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
Software developers often do not build software from scratch but reuse software libraries. In theory, the APIs of a library should be stable, but in practice they do change and th...