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WCRE
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Study of Function Clones in Open Source Software
The new hybrid clone detection tool NICAD combines the strengths and overcomes the limitations of both textbased and AST-based clone detection techniques to yield highly accurate ...
Chanchal Kumar Roy, James R. Cordy
ICSM
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...
ACISICIS
2010
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
A Study on Defect Density of Open Source Software
— Open source software (OSS) development is considered an effective approach to ensuring acceptable levels of software quality. One facet of quality improvement involves the dete...
Cobra Rahmani, Deepak Khazanchi
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Listening to programmers - Taxonomies and characteristics of comments in operating system code
Innovations from multiple directions have been proposed to improve software reliability. Unfortunately, many of the innovations are not fully exploited by programmers. To bridge t...
Yoann Padioleau, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou
JAIS
2010
98views Algorithms» more  JAIS 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Code Reuse in Open Source Software Development: Quantitative Evidence, Drivers, and Impediments
The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how and why individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code
Manuel Sojer, Joachim Henkel