The concept of the core group of developers is important and often discussed in empirical studies of FLOSS projects. This paper examines the question, “how does one empirically ...
Kevin Crowston, Kangning Wei, Qing Li, James Howis...
Repeated changes to a software system can introduce small weaknesses such as unplanned dependencies between different parts of the system. While such problems usually go undetecte...
Software continually changes due to performance improvements, new requirements, bug fixes, and adaptation to a changing operational environment. Common changes include modificatio...
Sunghun Kim, E. James Whitehead Jr., Jennifer Beva...
During the lifetime of an application, the objects and bindings in a persistent store may require modification in order to fix bugs or incorporate changes. Two mechanisms, Octopus...
Abstract. Wireless sensor networks come of age and start moving out of the laboratory into the field. As the number of deployments is increasing the need for an efficient and relia...