In the last six decades, many advanced software engineering approaches, techniques, and tools have been introduced to solve various problems related to the development and maintenance of complex large-scale software systems. Some of these advancements have been applied to practice with various degrees of success, including the acceptance of some methods and tools as de facto technologies by sof...

In this paper a team member ranking technique is presented for software bug repositories. Member ranking is performed using numbers of attributes available in software bug repositories, and a ranked list of developers is generated who are participating in development of software project. This ranking is generated from the contribution made by the individual developers in terms of bugs fixed, se...

Moose is a powerful reverse engineering platform, but its facilities and means to analyze software are separated from the tools developers typically use to develop and maintain their software systems: development environments such as Eclipse, VisualWorks, or Squeak. In practice, this requires developers to work with two distinct environments, one to actually develop the software, and another on...

This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers and users to maximize their profits. The equilibrium price structure is affected by piracy: license fees to developers are higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software developers over software protectio...

Modern software development is highly knowledge intensive; it requires that software developers create and share new knowledge during their daily work. However, current software development environments are “syntactic”, i.e. they do not facilitate understanding the semantics of software artefacts and hence cannot fully support the knowledge-driven activities of developers. In this paper we pres...

Modern software development is highly knowledge intensive; it requires that software developers create and share new knowledge during their daily work. However, current software development environments are “syntactic”, i.e. they do not facilitate understanding the semantics of software artefacts and hence cannot fully support the knowledge-driven activities of developers. In this paper we pres...