Some free software and open source projects have been extremely successful in the past. The success of a project is often related to the number of developers it can attract: a larg...
The association between the description of a concern (e.g., a feature) and the code that implements it is valuable information that can degrade as the code of a system evolves. We...
Software Process Improvement needs sound empirical data gathered from a range of empirical studies such as controlled experiments or case studies. However, conducting empirical st...
There is a growing interest in empirical study in software engineering, both for validating mature technologies and for guiding improvements of less-mature technologies. This pape...
Abstract--In order to increase our ability to use measurement to support software development practise we need to do more analysis of code. However, empirical studies of code are e...
Ewan D. Tempero, Craig Anslow, Jens Dietrich, Ted ...