Code ownership transfer or succession is a crucial ingredient in open source code reuse and in offshoring projects. Measuring succession can help understand factors that affect ...
Concept location is a critical activity during software evolution as it produces the location where a change is to start in response to a modification request, such as, a bug repo...
Gregory Gay, Sonia Haiduc, Andrian Marcus, Tim Men...
The paper proposes a new measure for the cohesion of classes in Object-Oriented software systems. It is based on the analysis of latent topics embedded in comments and identifiers...
Yixun Liu, Denys Poshyvanyk, Rudolf Ferenc, Tibor ...
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Tracking the progress of a project is often done through imprecise manually gathered information, like progress reports, or through automatic metrics such as Lines Of Code (LOC). ...