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ECLIPSE
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Supporting empirical studies by non-intrusive collection and visualization of fine-grained revision history
This paper presents a code-revision history collection and visualization Eclipse plugin for use in empirical studies of programmers. The revision history is collected non-intrusiv...
Jacky Chan, Alan Chu, Elisa L. A. Baniassad
OSS
2007
Springer
16 years 4 days ago
From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: An Empirical Study of the Lifecycle of Volunteer Community Projects
Some free software and open source projects have been extremely successful in the past. The success of a project is often related to the number of developers it can attract: a larg...
Andrea Capiluppi, Martin Michlmayr
ICSM
2006
IEEE
16 years 1 days ago
Tracking Concerns in Evolving Source Code: An Empirical Study
The association between the description of a concern (e.g., a feature) and the code that implements it is valuable information that can degrade as the code of a system evolves. We...
Martin P. Robillard
EUROMICRO
2004
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Using Academic Courses for Empirical Validation of Software Development Processes
Software Process Improvement needs sound empirical data gathered from a range of empirical studies such as controlled experiments or case studies. However, conducting empirical st...
Marcus Ciolkowski, Dirk Muthig, Jörg Rech
SIGSOFT
2001
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
An empirical methodology for introducing software processes
There is a growing interest in empirical study in software engineering, both for validating mature technologies and for guiding improvements of less-mature technologies. This pape...
Forrest Shull, Jeffrey Carver, Guilherme Travassos