A vector space model for automatic indexing
Communications of the ACM
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
MSR '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
Detecting Patch Submission and Acceptance in OSS Projects
MSR '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
Linking e-mails and source code artifacts
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
On the central role of mailing lists in open source projects: an exploratory study
JSAI-isAI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
Exploring, exposing, and exploiting emails to include human factors in software engineering
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Are popular classes more defect prone?
FASE'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Communication in open source software development mailing lists
Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
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Developers in Open Source Software (OSS) projects communicate using mailing lists. By convention, the mailing lists used only for task-related discussions, so they are primarily concerned with the software under development, and software process issues (releases, etc.). We focus on the discussions concerning the software, and study the frequency with which software entities (functions, methods, classes, etc) are mentioned in the mail. We find a strong, striking, cumulative relationship between this mention count in the email, and the number of times these entities are included in changes to the software. When we study the same phenomena over a series of time-intervals, the relationship is much less strong. This suggests some interesting avenues for future research.