In this paper, we describe a case study at Philips Healthcare MRI focusing on evolutionary couplings, i.e., a technique to infer relationships among modules by analyzing their his...
As more and more open-source software components become available on the internet we need automatic ways to label and compare them. For example, a developer who searches for reusa...
Researchers continue to demonstrate the benefits of Mining Software Repositories (MSR) for supporting software development and research activities. However, as the mining process...
Weiyi Shang, Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E....
Software repositories provide abundance of valuable information about open source projects. With the increase in the size of the data maintained by the repositories, automated ext...
In many libre (free, open source) software projects, most of the development is performed by a relatively small number of persons, the “core team”. The stability and permanenc...
Previous studies have shown that software code attributes, such as lines of source code, and history information, such as the number of code changes and the number of faults in pr...
Yonghee Shin, Robert M. Bell, Thomas J. Ostrand, E...
We are now witnessing the rapid growth of decentralized source code management (DSCM) systems, in which every developer has her own repository. DSCMs facilitate a style of collabo...
Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, Davi...