Software maintenance starts as soon as the first artifacts are delivered and is essential for
the success of the software. However, keeping maintenance activities and their related …

At present, bug tracking systems are used to collect and manage bug reports in many
software projects. As participants, the testers not only submit bug reports to the system, but …

The widespread adoption of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) means that the
ongoing maintenance of many widely used software components relies on the collaborative …

Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities are composed, in part, of
volunteers, many of whom contribute infrequently. However, these infrequent volunteers …

Large software projects are subject to quality risks of having defective modules that will
cause failures during the software execution. Several software repositories contain source …

We draw on the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering
literature to identify practices for managing EV in free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) …

Software defects are generally used to indicate software quality. However, due to the nature
of software, we are often only able to know about the defects found and reported, either …

In a young field, such as Mining Software Repositories (MSR), there is always a call for
benchmarks so that researchers can compare their results against others. Thus in order to …

Software evolution has been studied at a variety of granularities. The evolution of code,
classes, groups of classes, programs and finally large scale applications have been …

Bug tracking tools are vital for managing bugs in any open source as well as proprietary
commercial projects. Considering the significance of using an appropriate bug tracking tool …