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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...