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ICSM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
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 ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...
FIRSTMONDAY
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Free and Open Source Licenses in Community Life: Two Empirical Cases
How do licenses participate in Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) community life? This paper aims at answering this question. Despite the dynamic character of FLOSS development...
Stefano De Paoli, Maurizio Teli, Vincenzo D'Andrea
IWPC
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Digging the Development Dust for Refactorings
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 ...
Curtis Schofield, Brendan Tansey, Zhenchang Xing, ...
AGENTS
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Open Source, Standards and Scaleable Agencies
Numerous agencies and agent systems are being developed or portrayed as vehicles to deliver novel types of e-commerce services to users. However service agents in one agency are p...
Stefan Poslad, Phil Buckle, Rob Hadingham
APSEC
2001
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Expert Maintainers' Strategies and Needs when Understanding Software: A Case Study Approach
Accelerating the learning curve of software maintainers working on systems with which they have little familiarity motivated this study. A working hypothesis was that automated me...
Christos Tjortjis, Paul J. Layzell