The goal of the Parfait project is to find bugs in C source code in a scalable and precise way. To this end, Parfait was designed as a framework with layers of sound program anal...
Cristina Cifuentes, Nathan Keynes, Lian Li, Bernha...
Programmers often have to perform change tasks that involve unfamiliar portions of a software system’s code base. To help inform the design of software development tools intende...
Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Ga...
The quantitative analysis of software projects can provide insights that let us better understand open source and other software development projects. An important variable used in...
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
Design patterns are solutions to recurring design problems, conceived to increase benefits in terms of reuse, code quality and, above all, maintainability and resilience to change...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Co...