Software repositories are rich sources of information about the software development process. Mining the information stored in them has been shown to provide interesting insights ...
Software developers are constantly required to modify and adapt application features in response to changing requirements. The problem is that just by reading the source code, it ...
This paper presents a case study of introducing usability practices to a small open source project called Carrot2 . We describe our experiences from a point of view of an active Ca...
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Free and open source software (FOSS) is distributed and made available to users under different software licenses, mentioned in FOSS code by means of licensing statements. Variou...