Outsourcing and offshoring lead to a rapid influx of new developers in software projects. That, in turn, manifests in lower productivity and project delays. To address this common...
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is primarily developed by distributed teams. Developers contribute from around the world and coordinate their activity almost exclusively by...
Versioning systems such as CVS or Subversion exhibit a large potential to investigate the evolution of software systems. They are used to record the development steps of software ...
Each day, a software developer needs to answer a variety of questions that require the integration of different kinds of project information. Currently, answering these questions...
An essential characteristic of large scale software development is parallel development by teams of developers. How this parallel development is structured and supported has a pro...
Dewayne E. Perry, Harvey P. Siy, Lawrence G. Votta