Developers rely on the mechanisms provided by their IDE to browse and navigate a large software system. These mechanisms are usually based purely on a system’s static source cod...
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
Studying the release-time activities of a software project — that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release — can provide insights into both the de...
Bias/variance analysis is a useful tool for investigating the performance of machine learning algorithms. Conventional analysis decomposes loss into errors due to aspects of the le...
Abstract. Development environments typically present the software engineer with a structural perspective of an object-oriented system in terms of packages, classes and methods. Fro...