A comprehensive literature survey on approaches for mining software repositories (MSR) in
the context of software evolution is presented. In particular, this survey deals with those …

The focus of this chapter is to review what is known about free and open source software
development (FOSSD) work practices, development processes, project and community …

To design effective tools for detecting and recovering from software failures requires a deep
understanding of software bug characteristics. We study software bug characteristics by …

Source control repositories, bug repositories, archived communications, deployment logs,
and code repositories are examples of software repositories that are commonly available for …

This paper is about understanding the nature of bug fixing by analyzing thousands of bug fix
transactions of software repositories. It then places this learned knowledge in the context of …

We describe a method to use the source code change history of a software project to drive
and help to refine the search for bugs. Based on the data retrieved from the source code …

There is little understanding of how people describe software problems, but a variety of tools
solicit, manage, and analyze these descriptions in order to streamline software …

Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) have seen an increase in popularity relative to
traditional Centralized Version Control Systems (CVCS). Yet we know little on whether …

There is a tremendous wealth of code authorship information available in source code.
Motivated with the presence of this information, in a number of open source projects, an …

The paper presents an approach to recommend a ranked list of expert developers to assist
in the implementation of software change requests (eg, bug reports and feature requests) …