Source control systems permit developers to attach a free form message to every committed change. The content of these change messages can support software maintenance activities....
Defect density and defect prediction are essential for efficient resource allocation in software evolution. In an empirical study we applied data mining techniques for value seri...
Open-source software development projects are almost always collaborative and distributed. Despite the difficulties imposed by distance, these projects have managed to produce lar...
Existing studies on the maintenance of open source projects focus primarily on the analyses of the overall maintenance of the projects and less on specific categories like the co...