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ESEM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
An empirical study of security problem reports in Linux distributions
Existing studies on problem reports in open source projects focus primarily on the analysis of the general category of problem reports, or limit their attention to observations on...
Prasanth Anbalagan, Mladen A. Vouk
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Strengthening the empirical analysis of the relationship between Linus' Law and software security
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...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
On predicting the time taken to correct bug reports in open source projects
Existing studies on the maintenance of open source projects focus primarily on the analyses of the overall maintenance of the projects and less on specific categories like the co...
Prasanth Anbalagan, Mladen A. Vouk
ACSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Conficker and beyond: a large-scale empirical study
Conficker [26] is the most recent widespread, well-known worm/bot. According to several reports [16, 28], it has infected about 7 million to 15 million hosts and the victims are s...
Seungwon Shin, Guofei Gu
CSMR
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptation of Large-Scale Open Source Software - An Experience Report
Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
Markus Pizka