The public nature of discussion in open source projects provides a valuable resource for understanding the mechanisms of open source software development. In this paper we explore...
Most open source software development projects include an open bug repository—one to which users of the software can gain full access—that is used to report and track problems...
Software engineering researchers have long been interested in where and why bugs occur in code, and in predicting where they might turn up next. Historical bug-occurence data has ...
Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Eirik Aune, John ...
Memory bugs in C/C++ programs severely affect system availability and security. This paper presents First-Aid, a lightweight runtime system that survives software failures caused ...
ArgoUML uses both CVS and Bugzilla to keep track of bugfixing activities since 1998. A common practice is to reference source code changes resolving a bug stored in Bugzilla by i...