Studying the release-time activities of a software project — that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release — can provide insights into both the de...
—Build systems are responsible for transforming static source code artifacts into executable software. While build systems play such a crucial role in software development and ma...
As the useful life expectancy of software continues to increase, the task of maintaining the source code has become the dominant phase of the software life-cycle. In order to impr...
Jason W. A. Selby, Fraser P. Ruffell, Mark Giesbre...
Source code coupling and change history are two important data sources for change coupling analysis. The popularity of public open source projects in recent years makes both sourc...
In many libre (free, open source) software projects, most of the development is performed by a relatively small number of persons, the “core team”. The stability and permanenc...