We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
Multicore has shown its merits of high performance and low power consumption compared with traditional single cores. It also puts a challenge to the universities in how to teach a...
Qingsong Shi, Tianzhou Chen, Hu Wei, Jolly Wang, N...
This paper examines how XP practice meets the motivational needs of software developers. Interactions with peers have been identified by others as one potential area of (de)motiva...
Sarah Beecham, Helen Sharp, Nathan Baddoo, Tracy H...
Many studies have evaluated different uses of collaborative software. Typically, the research has focused on the shortcomings and, sometimes, the ways end users succeed or fail to...
David F. Redmiles, Hiroko Wilensky, Kristie Kosaka...
Open source software is often considered to be secure. One factor in this confidence in the security of open source software lies in leveraging large developer communities to find...