With the success of libre (free, open source) software, a new type of software compilation has become increasingly common. Such compilations, often referred to as ‘distributions...
Publicly accessible bug report repositories maintained by free / open source development communities provide vast stores of data about distributed software problem management (SWP...
Programmers often have to perform change tasks that involve unfamiliar portions of a software system’s code base. To help inform the design of software development tools intende...
Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Ga...
Software archives contain historical information about the development process of a software system. Using data mining techniques rules can be extracted from these archives. In th...
The understanding of the structure of a software system can be improved by analyzing the system’s evolution during development. Visualizations of software history that provide o...