Some of the most interesting differences between Open Source Software (OSS) development and commercial colocated software development lie in the communication and collaboration pr...
Koji Yatani, Eunyoung Chung, Carlos Jensen, Khai N...
Software developers are rooted in the written form of their code, yet they often draw diagrams representing their code. Unfortunately, we still know little about how and why they ...
Mauro Cherubini, Gina Venolia, Robert DeLine, Andr...
This paper takes up the problem of understanding why we preserve some things passionately and discard others without thought. We briefly report on the theoretical literature relat...
William Odom, James Pierce, Erik Stolterman, Eli B...
Uncertainty analysis through sensitivity studies and quantification of the variance of the reliability estimate has become more common in architecture-based software reliability ...
In this paper, we explore the problems associated with exception handling from a new dimension: the human. We designed a study that evaluates (1) different perspectives of softwar...