The concept of the core group of developers is important and often discussed in empirical studies of FLOSS projects. This paper examines the question, “how does one empirically ...
Kevin Crowston, Kangning Wei, Qing Li, James Howis...
Integrating a system of disparate components to form a single application is still a daunting, high risk task, especially for components with heterogeneous communication expectati...
Michelle Hepner, Rose F. Gamble, Manasi Kelkar, Le...
Numerous studies have been conducted on design and architecture of knowledge repositories. This paper addresses the need for looking at practices where knowledge repositories are ...
When programmers develop or maintain software, they instinctively sense that there are fragments of code that other developers implemented somewhere, and these code fragments coul...
Software systems embed in them knowledge about the domain in which they operate. However, this knowledge is “latent”. Making such knowledge accessible could be of great value ...