Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
For many safety-critical systems a safety case is built as part of the certification or acceptance process. The safety case assembles evidence to justify that the design and imple...
Accelerating the learning curve of software maintainers working on systems with which they have little familiarity motivated this study. A working hypothesis was that automated me...
Can engaging students in free and open source software (FOSS) pique their interest in computer science? This paper describes an introductory computer science course that introduce...
A classic question in software development is “H ow much testing is enough?” Aside from dynamic coverage-based metrics, there are few measures that can be used to provide guid...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie A. Williams, Jason Osb...