There is an increasing trend in global software development, where different parts of a software product are being developed in different organisations. The process aspect of such...
As more and more open-source software components become available on the internet we need automatic ways to label and compare them. For example, a developer who searches for reusa...
In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE), an approach to software engineering in which search based optimisatio...
With the success of open source software projects, such as Apache and Mozilla, comes the opportunity to study the development process. In this paper, we present StarGate: a novel ...
In this paper, we discuss the notion of variability. We have experienced that this concept has so far been underdefined. Although, we have observed that variability techniques bec...