Software repositories are rich sources of information about the software development process. Mining the information stored in them has been shown to provide interesting insights ...
FOSS (Free and Open Source System) is repeatedly modied and reused by other FOSS or proprietary software systems. They are released to others under specic licenses whose terms and...
Parallel developments are becoming increasingly prevalent in the building and evolution of large-scale software systems. Our previous studies of a large industrial project showed ...
The focus of this chapter is to review what is known about free and open source software development (FOSSD) work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics,...
Motivation: A few years ago, FlyBase undertook to design a new database schema to store Drosophila data. It would fully integrate genomic sequence and annotation data with bibliog...