Hierarchy in Meritocracy: Community Building and Code Production in The Apache Software Foundation

This research is about code production in top-level open source communities of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). We extensively analyzed Subversion repository logs from 70 top-level Apache open source projects in the ASF from 2004 to 2009. Based on interactions in code production during one-year periods we constructed networks of file co...

BEPStore: The reverse App Store

FeedbackFruits is a company that offers an online learning solution to help innovate education. Their platform is used on a daily basis by teachers and students to improve their learning experience. When using the platform, the users often think of valuable feedback and new features they would like to see added. This report describes the process...

Machine Learning for Software Refactoring: a Large-Scale Empirical Study

Refactorings tackle the challenge of architectural degradation of object-oriented software projects by improving its internal structure without changing the behavior. Refactorings improve software quality and maintainability if applied correctly. However, identifying refactoring opportunities is a challenging problem for developers and...