DocumentCode
419886
Title
Studying the evolution of open source systems at different levels of granularity: two case studies
Author
Capiluppi, Andrea ; Ramil, Juan F.
Author_Institution
Dipt. di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
fYear
2004
fDate
6-7 Sept. 2004
Firstpage
113
Lastpage
118
Abstract
This work presents a study of several evolutionary attributes of two open source software systems: the distributed file system Arla and the stable branch of the Web browser Mozilla. The attributes (size, activity rate and complexity) are visualized over releases using measures at various levels of granularity: folders, files and procedures. A number of hypotheses about the evolutionary behaviour of the systems are considered and, in general, supported by the data from the 2 systems.
Keywords
computer communications software; distributed databases; online front-ends; public domain software; software maintenance; Arla; Mozilla; Web browser; distributed file system; open source systems; software system evolution; Collaborative software; Computer aided software engineering; Computer industry; Data visualization; Distributed computing; File systems; Open source software; Size measurement; Software maintenance; Software systems;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software Evolution, 2004. Proceedings. 7th International Workshop on Principles of
ISSN
1550-4077
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2211-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IWPSE.2004.1334775
Filename
1334775
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