An empirical study of build system migrations in practice: Case studies on KDE and the Linux kernel

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 160-169

  Suvorov, Roman ^a   Nagappan, Meiyappan ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Zou, Ying ^a   Adams, Bram ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

build systems; maintenance; restructuring

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMED DECISION; LINUX KERNEL; MAILING LISTS; MULTIPLE ITERATIONS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; REQUIREMENTS GATHERING; RESTRUCTURING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOURCE CODE REPOSITORIES; SOURCE CODES; SPIRAL MODELS; SYSTEM CODES; SYSTEM MIGRATION; SYSTEM PROTOTYPE;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; MAINTENANCE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84873128222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405267     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (42)

1. S. McIntosh, B. Adams, T. H. D. Nguyen, Y. Kamei, and A. E. Hassan, "An Empirical Study of Build Maintenance Effort," in Proc. of the 33rd Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2011.
2. B. Adams, K. De Schutter, H. Tromp, and W. De Meuter, "The evolution of the linux build system," Electronic Communications of the ECEASST, vol. 8, February 2008.
3. S. McIntosh, B. Adams, and A. E. Hassan, "The evolution of ant build systems," in Proc. of the 7th IEEE Working Conf. on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), May 2010, pp. 42-51.
4. B. Adams, K. De Schutter, H. Tromp, and W. D. Meuter, "Design recovery and maintenance of build systems," in Proc. of the 23rd Intl. Conf. on Software Maintenance (ICSM), October 2007, pp. 114-123.
5. A. A. Cid. (2012, Apr) bksys/scons (Re: win32 port). KDE e.V. [Online]. Available: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006-January/000411. html
6. A. Neundorf. (2012, Apr) Why the KDE project switched to CMake - and how. [Online]. Available: https://lwn.net/Articles/188693
7. D. Faure. (2012, Apr) bksys/scons (Re: win32 port). KDE e.V. [Online]. Available: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006-January/000375. html
8. B. Reed. (2012, Apr) Strategy for choosing a build system. KDE e.V. [Online]. Available: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006- February/000804.html
9. KDE e.V. (2012, Apr) The Road to KDE 4: CMake, a New Build System for KDE - KDE.news. [Online]. Available: http://dot.kde.org/2007/02/21/road-kde-4- cmake-new-build-system-kde
10. L. Torvalds. (2012, Apr) Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: State of the new config & build system. [Online]. Available: http://lkml.indiana.edu/ hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.3/0802.html
11. R. Zippel. (2012, Apr) LinuxKernelConf. [Online]. Available: http://zippel.home.xs4all.nl/lc
12. Black Duck Software, Inc. (2012, Apr) Linux Kernel - Ohloh. [Online]. Available: http://www.ohloh.net/p/linux
13. -. (2012, Apr) KDE - Ohloh. [Online]. Available: http://www.ohloh.net/p/ kde
14. Kitware, Inc. (2012, Apr) The CMake Archives. [Online]. Available: http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake
15. KDE e.V. (2012, Apr) The Kde-buildsystem Archives. [Online]. Available: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem
16. The Trustees of Indiana University. (2012, Apr) The Linux-Kernel Archive. [Online]. Available: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel
17. The Mail Archive. (2012, Apr) kbuild-devel. [Online]. Available: {http://www.mail-archive.com/kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net}
18. N. Bettenburg, E. Shihab, and A. Hassan, "An empirical study on the risks of using off-the-shelf techniques for processing mailing list data," in Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Software Maintenance (ICSM), Sep 2009, pp. 539-542.
19. B. Boehm, "A spiral model of software development and enhancement," Computer, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 61-72, 1988.
20. KDE e.V. (2012, Apr) David Faure - Behind KDE). [Online]. Available: http://www.behindkde.org/node/43
21. I. Bowman, R. Holt, and N. Brewster, "Linux as a case study: Its extracted software architecture," in Proc. of the 21st intl. conf. on Software engineering (ICSE), May 1999, pp. 555-563.
22. M. Dorfman, "System and software requirements engineering," in IEEE Computer Society Press Tutorial. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990, pp. 7-22.
23. K. e.V. (2012, Apr) KDE Events Homepage - Conference of KDE Developers and Contributors. [Online]. Available: http://conference2005.kde.org/devconf.php
24. S. Robertson, "Requirements trawling: techniques for discovering requirements," Intl. Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 405-421, 2001.
25. F.-E. Picca. (2012, Apr) win32 port. KDE e.V. [Online]. Available: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006-January/000369.html
26. D. Faure. (2012, Apr) Strategy for choosing a build system. KDE e.V. [Online]. Available: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006- February/000821.html
27. A. Winter. (2012, Apr) [FEATURE REQUEST] CMake and Colors. KDE e.V. [Online]. Available: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006-March/ 001890.html
28. R. Habacker. (2012, Apr) cmake clean problem. KDE e.V. [Online]. Available: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006-March/001445.html
29. H. Schröder. (2012, Apr) Strategy for choosing a build system. KDE e.V. [Online]. Available: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006- January/000430.html
30. A. Neundorf. (2012, Apr) bksys/scons (Re: win32 port). KDE e.V. [Online]. Available: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006-January/000409. html
31. E. S. Raymond. (2012, Apr) [KBUILD] Time for a bullet? [Online]. Available: http://lwn.net/2000/0525/a/bullet.html
32. J. Corbet. (2012, Apr) The Linux 2.5 Kernel Summit. [Online]. Available: http://lwn.net/2001/features/KernelSummit
33. S. Ravnborg. (2012, Apr) Re: [kbuild-devel] your opinion on cml2 and kbuild-2.5. [Online]. Available: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/ 0202.1/2004.html
34. J. Andrews. (2012, Apr) Linux: CML2, ESR & The LKML - KernelTrap. KernelTrap. [Online]. Available: http://kerneltrap.org/node/17
35. E. S. Raymond. (2012, Apr) Re: Cml1 cleanup patch. [Online]. Available: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.3/0193.html
36. -. (2012, Apr) The cml2 resources page. [Online]. Available: http://www.catb.org/~esr/cml2/
37. K. Owens. (2012, Apr) Archives of the linux-kbuild mailing list: [KBUILD] Kernel makefile wish list for 2.5. Internet Archive. [Online]. Available: http://web.archive.org/web/20010726142628/http://www.torque.net/kbuild/archive/ 0728.html
38. -. (2012, Apr) If you want kbuild 2.5, tell Linus [LWN.net]. [Online]. Available: http://lwn.net/Articles/1500/
39. L. Torvalds. (2012, Apr) Re: KBuild 2.5 Impressions [LWN.net]. [Online]. Available: http://lwn.net/Articles/1495/
40. K. Owens. (2012, Apr) Linux-Kernel Archive: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel. [Online]. Available: http://lkml.indiana.edu/ hypermail/linux/kernel/0205.0/0055.html
41. L. Torvalds. (2012, Apr) Re:[ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1. [Online]. Available: https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/28/145
42. E. S. Raymond. (2012, Apr) Cml2 language reference. [Online]. Available: http://www.catb.org/~esr/cml2/cml2-reference.html