Defectiveness Evolution in Open Source Software Systems

Understanding Open Source Software Evolution

Evaluating the Evolution of Small Scale Open Source Software Systems

For real-world software to remain satisfactory to its stakeholders requires its continual enhancement and adaptation. Acceptance of this phenomenon, termed software evolution, as intrinsic to real world software has led to an increasing interest in disciplined and systematic planning, management and improvement of the evolution process. Almost all of the previous work on software evolution has ...

Evolution of Open Source Software Systems – A Large-Scale Investigation

In this paper, the evolution of a large sample of open source software projects will be analysed. The evolution of commercial systems has been an issue that has long been a center of research, thus a coherent theoretical framework of software evolution has been developed and empirically tested. Therefore these results can be used to compare the situation in open source projects to the evolution...

Evolution of Open Source Software Networks

The work presented in this paper is focused on the Open Source Software (OSS) community structure, with particular emphasis on the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Subversion (SVN) datasets used to produce the network structure. The theme of the work in this paper is the dynamics of these networks over time. Much research has been done analyzing the network structure at some particular poin...

Open Source Software Evolution and Its Dynamics

This thesis undertakes an empirical study of software evolution by analyzing open source software (OSS) systems. The main purpose is to aid in understanding OSS evolution. The work centers on collecting large quantities of structural data cost-effectively and analyzing such data to understand software evolution dynamics (the mechanisms and causes of change and growth). We propose a multipurpose...