In typical open source software development, developers use revision control systems for product management, mailing list systems for human communications, and bug tracking system...
Literature on the topic of code cloning often asserts that duplicating code within a software system is a bad practice, that it causes harm to the system's design and should b...
Shared-memory multi-threaded programming is inherently more difficult than single-threaded programming. The main source of complexity is that, the threads of an application can in...
The increasing availability and deployment of open source software in personal and commercial environments makes open source software highly appealing for hackers, and others who ...
Open source software is often considered to be secure. One factor in this confidence in the security of open source software lies in leveraging large developer communities to find...