Abstract Build systems are an essential part of modern software projects. As projects change continuously, it is crucial to understand how the build system changes because neglecting its maintenance can, at best, lead expensive breakage, or worst, introduce user-reported defects due incorrectly compiled, linked, packaged, deployed official releases. Recent studies have investigated (co-)evoluti...

It takes all sorts to build a team, from creative problem solvers focused strategists and coordinators, collectively dwelling honeybees may also benefit the individual strengths of their nest mates. ‘Individuals with different abilities, some faster learn, others slower but more accurate, help group be efficient cope broad spectrum problems encountered in nature,’ says Martin Giurfa Université ...

NICOS, NIghtly COntrol System, is a flexible tool for coordination of software development in large-scale projects. It manages the multi-platform nightly builds based on the recent versions of software packages, tries to compensate for technical failures, tests the newly built software, identifies possible problems, and makes results immediately available to developers spread over different ins...

Managing large-scale software products is a complex software engineering task. The automation of the software development, release and distribution process is most beneficial in the large collaborations , where the big number of developers, multiple platforms and distributed environment are typical factors. This paper describes Build and Output Analyzer framework and its components that have be...