Studying the release-time activities of a software project — that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release — can provide insights into both the de...
Abstract. OpenComRTOS is one of the few Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) for embedded systems that was developed using formal modeling techniques. The goal was to obtain a proven...
This study was conducted to better understand how New Product Development (NPD) team members apply their experiences to meet the task needs of their project. Although “experienc...
Software is typically improved and modified in small increments (we refer to each of these increments as a modification record--MR). MRs are usually stored in a configuration manag...
In the context of open source development or software evolution, developers are often faced with test suites which have been developed with no apparent rationale and which may nee...