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  • Managing bug reports in free/open source software (FOSS) communities

    Creator:
    Mohan, Nitin
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    Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) communities often use open bug reporting to allow users to participate by reporting bugs. This practice can lead to more duplicate reports, as inexperienced users can be less rigorous about researching existing bug reports. The purpose of this research is to determine the extent of this...
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    suggestions and advice and helping me draft this thesis. There are no adjectives to portray the greatness of

  • Diagramming practices in open source software development

    Creator:
    Chung, Eunyoung
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    Visual information presented in diagrams promotes information processing both in an individual and in collaborative work. Previous literature has identified the role of diagrams in understanding information processing in a variety of disciplines. In software engineering, diagrams are a prevalent method involved in process development: diagrams are used for system...
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    manuscripts. First, we study diagramming practices in the Ubuntu project. Second, we report diagramming

  • Gender and participation in early stages of the free/open source software joining process

    Creator:
    Gilbertson, Claire E.
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    Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) is a powerful development paradigm for creating software. Increasingly more FOSS projects, like Firefox and Android, are integrated into mainstream technology. It is important that FOSS projects serve its diverse user base well. Several surveys have found that existing FOSS communities are very homogenous populations and...
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    wants to learn more about a project, report a bug or has a question about the project, he or she

  • Using provenance to aid document re-finding

    Creator:
    Lonsdale, Heather
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    In the field of Human-Computer Interaction, provenance refers to the complete history and genealogy of a document. Provenance can be useful in identifying related resources, such as different versions of the same document or resources used in the creation of a new document. Though methods of provenance collection and applications...
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    methods of provenance collection and applications for provenance have been studied, no studies have

  • Improving the Quality of Software Using Mutation Testing and Fault Prediction

    Creator:
    Ahmed, Iftekhar
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    Our confidence in software systems depends on our confidence in the exhaustiveness of our testing. As software systems get more complex, the task of exhaustive testing becomes more complex and even infeasible in some cases. In order to build less error prone systems, we therefore need to not only focus...
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    Dissertation
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    me to his group and believed in me when no one else including me would believe in me. He helped me

  • Investigating the Effects of Design Quality in OSS Projects

    Creator:
    Mannan, Umme Ayda
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    Software systems are becoming an essential part of the lives of both individuals and organizations, and as a consequence, these systems are getting bigger and more complex. Because of this, the tasks of maintaining the quality in these complex software systems are becoming increasingly difficult. Furthermore, these systems are subject...
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    Conflicts (Significance Level α < 0.0031). . 117 5.10 Poisson Regression Model Predicting Bug-fix

  • An Investigation of the Effects of Merge Conflicts on Collaborative Software Development

    Creator:
    Brindescu, Caius
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    Merge conflicts have long plagued software development. With larger and more dispersed teams comes greater risk of developers working on the same code at the same time. While merge conflicts are known to be painful, their exact impact on software is still largely unknown. Are merge conflicts an isolated problem,...
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Internal threats

  • Involving older adults in the design and development of free/open source software

    Creator:
    Davidson, Jennifer L.
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    An age-wave is upon us where many older adults are reaching retirement. Technically experienced older adults have skills that could be directly applied to free/open source software (FOSS) communities, such as project management, programming, and/or knowledge of a rapidly growing end-user population. FOSS is a widely popular, low-cost way to...
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    Dissertation
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    Integrative  Graduate  Education  and  Research  Traineeship in Aging  Science   Program Grant  No.  DGE

  • An automated web crawl methodology to analyze the online privacy landscape

    Creator:
    Sarkar, Chandan
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    Protecting end-users privacy and building trust are the two most important factors needed to support the growth of ecommerce. The increased dependence on the Internet for a wide variety of daily transactions causes a corresponding loss in privacy for many users, as virtually all websites collect data from users directly...
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    Masters Thesis
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    observer (no knowledge of internal website workings). We have looked at several interesting practices

  • Inspiring End-user Programming Through Exposure to Multi-platform Computing and Improved Integrated Development Environments

    Creator:
    Beardsley, Dedrie
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    The art of software engineering inherently requires high-level problem solving and perseverance, as programmers and designers wrestle with complex design and implementation challenges in the process of turning loose concepts and ideas into working code. In the current developer ecosystem, engineers are commonly incentivized extrinsically by monetary rewards, approval or...
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    optimization in iTV, but no means to implement them. It stands to reason that users experiencing platforms