Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) development is not the same an Software Engineering (SE). Why this is so is unclear and open to various interpretations. Both address the challeng...
Despite the growing body of research on inner workings of FOSS development, there are few studies on its relation with broader developments in society. In this study we have attemp...
It is remarkable to think that even without any interest in finding suitable methods and concepts that would allow complex software systems to evolve and remain manageable, the e...
The widespread adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in many strategic contexts of the information technology society has drawn the attention on the issues regarding ho...
Fabio Mancinelli, Jaap Boender, Roberto Di Cosmo, ...
Past software engineering literature has firmly established that software architectures and the associated code decay over time. Architectural decay is, potentially, a major issu...