Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
One of the impediments to the wide dissemination of software estimation and measurement practices is the significant overhead imposed by these practices on the project and develop...
Due to the complexity associated with developing parallel applications, scientists and engineers rely on highlevel software libraries such as PETSc, ScaLAPACK and PESSL to ease th...
Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, Satish Balay, Barry...
: Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects can be considered as learning environments in which heterogeneous communities get together to exchange knowledge through discussi...