Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
Software evolution research has recently focused on new development paradigms, studying whether laws found in more classic development environments also apply. Previous works have...
In many libre (free, open source) software projects, most of the development is performed by a relatively small number of persons, the “core team”. The stability and permanenc...
Can we predict locations of future refactoring based on the development history? In an empirical study of open source projects we found that attributes of software evolution data ...
Jacek Ratzinger, Thomas Sigmund, Peter Vorburger, ...
We use 63 features extracted from sources such as versioning and issue tracking systems to predict defects in short time frames of two months. Our multivariate approach covers aspe...