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SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Automatic generation of suggestions for program investigation
Before performing a modification task, a developer usually has to investigate the source code of a system to understand how to carry out the task. Discovering the code relevant to...
Martin P. Robillard
IJSTM
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
The internal differentiation of the KIBS sector: empirical evidence from cluster analysis
: The sector of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) is characterised by high rates of firm fluctuation, rapid changes in technological progress (e.g., in the software indu...
Daniel Horgos, Andreas Koch
ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Phase distribution of software development effort
Effort distribution by phase or activity is an important but often overlooked aspect compared to other steps in the cost estimation process. Poor effort allocation is among the ma...
Ye Yang, Mei He, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Barry W. B...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A statistical examination of the evolution and properties of libre software
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...
Israel Herraiz
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Do stack traces help developers fix bugs?
—A widely shared belief in the software engineering community is that stack traces are much sought after by developers to support them in debugging. But limited empirical evidenc...
Adrian Schröter, Nicolas Bettenburg, Rahul Pr...