In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
Open source communities have been of great interest for researchers recently, yet little can be agreed upon when it comes to developers motives. While it has been shown that partic...
Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their code. Due to the small scale of such tasks, the overhead in reusing source code can qu...
The Meta-Environment is a flexible framework for language development, source code analysis and source code transformation. We highlight new features and demonstrate how the syst...
M. G. J. van den Brand, Magiel Bruntink, G. R. Eco...
Comments are valuable especially for program understanding and maintenance, but do developers comment their code? To which extent do they add comments or adapt them when they evol...