Open Source Software (OSS) projects provide a unique opportunity to gather and analyze publicly available historical data. The Postgres SQL server, for example, has over seven yea...
Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Premkumar T. Devanbu...
The adoption of distributed version control (DVC), such as Git and Mercurial, in open-source software (OSS) projects has been explosive. Why is this and how are projects using DVC?...
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abra...
—A measure of how a class is impacted during design evolution is presented. The history of design changes that involve a given class is the basis for the measure. Classes that ar...
Maen Hammad, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Malet...
—Software developers often face challenges in reusing open source frameworks due to several factors such as the framework complexity and lack of proper documentation. In this pap...
Since code revisions reflect the extent of human involvement in the software development process, revision histories reveal the interactions and interfaces between developers and...