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ASWEC
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Empirically-Based Criterion for Determining the Success of an Open-Source Project
In order to determine a success criterion for open-source software projects, we analyzed 122,205 projects in the SourceForge database. There were 80,597 projects with no downloads...
Dror G. Feitelson, Gillian Z. Heller, Stephen R. S...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Searching and skimming: An exploratory study
Source code search is an important activity for programmers working on a change task to a software system. As part of a larger project to improve tool support for finding informa...
Jamie Starke, Chris Luce, Jonathan Sillito
EWSPT
1995
Springer
14 years 12 days ago
Process Viewpoints
ÐThis paper discusses the notion of process inconsistency and suggests that inconsistencies in software processes are inevitable and sometimes desirable. We present an approach to...
Ian Sommerville, Gerald Kotonya, Stephen Viller, P...
IWPC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
System Evolution Tracking through Execution Trace Analysis
Software evolution analysis is concerned with analysis of artifacts produced during a software systems life-cycle. Execution traces produced from instrumented code reflect a syst...
Michael Fischer, Johann Oberleitner, Harald Gall, ...
COMPSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
HEAT: An Integrated Static and Dynamic Approach for Thread Escape Analysis
Thread escape analysis, which determines whether and when a variable becomes shared by multiple threads, is a foundation for many other program analyses. Most existing escape anal...
Qichang Chen, Liqiang Wang, Zijiang Yang