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...
Applications with Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are ubiquitous. Nontrivial GUI-based applications (GAPs) evolve frequently, and understanding how GUIs of different versions of ...
Source code version repositories provide a treasure of information encompassing the changes introduced in the system throughout its evolution. These repositories are typically man...
Huzefa H. Kagdi, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. M...
Abstract—Change prediction helps developers by recommending program entities that will have to be changed alongside the entities currently being changed. To evaluate their accura...
Comments are valuable especially for program understanding and maintenance, but do developers comment their code? To which extent do they add comments or adapt them when they evol...