Is the nature of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution fundamentally different from that of the traditional and commercially available software systems? Lehman and others conducted...
There can be no doubt that a great many technologies have been added to Linux TM over the past ten years. What is less well-known is that it is often necessary to introduce a larg...
Common coupling (sharing global variables across modules) is widely accepted as a measure of software quality and maintainability; a low level of common coupling is necessary (but...
Dror G. Feitelson, Tokunbo O. S. Adeshiyan, Daniel...
The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
Abstract. Understanding the challenges faced by real projects in evolving variability models, is a prerequisite for providing adequate support for such undertakings. We study the e...
Rafael Lotufo, Steven She, Thorsten Berger, Krzysz...