We review the empirical research on Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS)
development and assess the state of the literature. We develop a framework for organizing …

As open project repositories have become widespread, evaluating the quality of open
source software (OSS) has gained attention in the software community. Despite the variety in …

Code smells are poor implementation choices applied by developers during software
evolution that often lead to critical flaws or failure. Much in the same way, community smells …

Organizations build strategic alliances with other firms with the intent of tapping into partners'
resources and capturing long-term value from these relationships. Such partnerships are …

The building of highly cohesive classes is an important objective in object-oriented design.
Class cohesion refers to the relatedness of the class members, and it indicates one …

Context Class maintainability is the likelihood that a class can be easily modified. Before
releasing an object-oriented software system, it is impossible to know with certainty when …

CONTEXT: Class cohesion is an important object-oriented software quality attribute.
Assessing class cohesion during the object-oriented design phase is one important way to …

When software engineers fix bugs, they may have several options as to how to fix those
bugs. Which fix they choose has many implications, both for practitioners and researchers …

Open source software (oss), the origins of which can be traced back to the 1950s, is software
distributed with a license that allows access to its source code, free redistribution, the …

When software engineers fix bugs, they may have several options as to how to fix those
bugs. Which fix they choose has many implications, both for practitioners and researchers …