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HICSS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Core and Periphery in Free/Libre and Open Source Software Team Communications
The concept of the core group of developers is important and often discussed in empirical studies of FLOSS projects. This paper examines the question, “how does one empirically ...
Kevin Crowston, Kangning Wei, Qing Li, James Howis...
WCRE
2002
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Knowledge-Based Library Re-Factoring for an Open Source Project
Software miniaturization is a form of software refactoring focused on reducing an application to the bare bone. Porting an application on a hand-held device is very likely to requ...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Markus Neteler, Giuliano An...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
158views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
The Mysteries of Open Source Software: Black and White and Red All Over?
Open Source Software (OSS) has attracted enormous media and research attention since the term was coined in February 1998. The concept itself is founded on the paradoxical premise...
Brian Fitzgerald, Pär J. Ågerfalk
ESEM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The evolution and impact of code smells: A case study of two open source systems
Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
WCRE
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Do Code and Comments Co-Evolve? On the Relation between Source Code and Comment Changes
Comments are valuable especially for program understanding and maintenance, but do developers comment their code? To which extent do they add comments or adapt them when they evol...
Beat Fluri, Michael Würsch, Harald Gall