Macro-level software evolution: A case study of a large software compilation

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 262-285

  Gonzalez Barahona, Jesus M ^a   Robles, Gregorio ^a   Michlmayr, Martin ^b   Amor, Juan José ^a   German, Daniel M ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b HP   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Large software collections; Mining software repositories; Software evolution; Software integrators

Indexed keywords

GNU/LINUX; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LARGE SOFTWARE COLLECTIONS; LIBRE SOFTWARE; LINES OF CODE; MEAN SIZE; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; OPEN SOURCES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PYTHON LANGUAGE; SCALE-UP; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE COMPILATION; SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTIONS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE INTEGRATORS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MINING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 67650480560     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9100-x     Document Type: Article

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