Who are source code contributors and how do they change?

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 11-20

  Di Penta, Massimiliano ^a   German, Daniel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Mining software repositories; Open source systems; Source code ownership

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LEGAL ENTITIES; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; MOZILLA; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES;

OPEN SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 73449093825     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2009.41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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