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MSR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A study of the contributors of PostgreSQL
This report describes some characteristics of the development team of PostgreSQL that were uncovered by analyzing the history of its software artifacts as recorded by the projectâ...
Daniel M. Germán
ICST
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Mining Software Repositories to Study Co-Evolution of Production & Test Code
Andy Zaidman, Bart Van Rompaey, Serge Demeyer, Ari...
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Study of Evolution of Inheritance in Java OSS
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...
Emal Nasseri, Steve Counsell, M. Shepperd
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
The Chaos of Software Development
In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt
SCP
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Distributed and Collaborative Software Evolution Analysis with Churrasco
Analyzing the evolution of large and long-lived software systems is a complex problem that requires extensive tool support due to the amount and complexity of the data that needs ...
Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza