Mining software repositories for bug detection requires accurate techniques of identifying bug-fix revisions. There have been many researches to find exact bug-fix revisions. Howe...
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...
—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...