In spite of the overwhelming success of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) like Apache and GNU/Linux, there is a limited understanding of the processes and methodologies that speci...
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 ...
— Open Source Software is computer software for which the source code is publicly open for inspection, modification, and redistribution. While research of a few, large, successf...
Projects where developers are geographically distributed and with high personnel turnover are usually considered to be hard to manage. Any organisation that successfully handles s...
The recent emergence of web mash-ups and open source software is driving the development of new practices in software and systems development. In this paper we explore novel pract...
Ingbert R. Floyd, M. Cameron Jones, Dinesh Rathi, ...