Assessment of Issue Handling Efficiency

We mined the issue database of GNOME to assess how issues are handled. How many issues are submitted and resolved? Does the backlog grow or decrease? How fast are issues resolved? Does issue resolution speed increase or decrease over time? In which subproject are issues handled most efficiently? To answer such questions, we apply several...

Understanding Ajax Applications by Connecting Client and Server-Side Execution Traces

Author's version of the work published in: Empirical Software Engineering (Springer), 18 (2), 2013; doi:10.1007/s10664-012-9200-5 Ajax-enabled web applications are a new breed of highly interactive, highly dynamic web applications. Although Ajax allows developers to create rich web applications, Ajax applications can be difficult to comprehend...