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most citedA Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors

106 citations · 123 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SE2023★ 8 cited

NoCodeGPT: A No-Code Interface for Building Web Apps with Language Models

Mauricio Monteiro, Bruno Castelo Branco, Samuel Silvestre +2

In this paper, we first report an exploratory study where three participants were instructed to use ChatGPT to implement a simple Web-based application. A key finding of this study…

cs.SE2022

Identifying Source Code File Experts

Otávio Cury, Guilherme Avelino, Pedro Santos Neto +2

In software development, the identification of source code file experts is an important task. Identifying these experts helps to improve software maintenance and evolution activiti…

cs.SE2019

Effects of Visualizing Technical Debts on a Software Maintenance Project

Ronivon Dias, Pedro Neto, Irvayne Ibiapina +1

The technical debt (TD) metaphor is widely used to encapsulate numerous software quality problems. She describes the trade-off between the short term benefit of taking a shortcut d…

cs.SE2019

On the abandonment and survival of open source projects: An empirical investigation

Guilherme Avelino, Eleni Constantinou, Marco Tulio Valente +1

Background: Evolution of open source projects frequently depends on a small number of core developers. The loss of such core developers might be detrimental for projects and even t…

cs.SE2017★ 9 cited

Assessing Code Authorship: The Case of the Linux Kernel

Guilherme Avelino, Leonardo Passos, Andre Hora +1

Code authorship is a key information in large-scale open source systems. Among others, it allows maintainers to assess division of work and identify key collaborators. Interestingl…

cs.SE2016★ 106 cited

A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors

Guilherme Avelino, Leonardo Passos, Andre Hora +1

Truck Factor (TF) is a metric proposed by the agile community as a tool to identify concentration of knowledge in software development environments. It states the minimal number of…