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An insight into the technical debt-fix trade off in software backporting
Jarin Tasnim, Debasish Chakroborti, Chanchal K. Roy +1
Maintaining software is an ongoing process that stretches beyond the initial release. Stable software versions continuously evolve to fix bugs, add improvements, address security i…
Backports: Change Types, Challenges and Strategies
Debasish Chakroborti, Kevin A. Schneider, Chanchal K. Roy
Source code repositories allow developers to manage multiple versions (or branches) of a software system. Pull-requests are used to modify a branch, and backporting is a regular ac…
A Fine-grained Data Set and Analysis of Tangling in Bug Fixing Commits
Steffen Herbold, Alexander Trautsch, Benjamin Ledel +45
Context: Tangled commits are changes to software that address multiple concerns at once. For researchers interested in bugs, tangled commits mean that they actually study not only…
An Exploratory Study to Find Motives Behind Cross-platform Forks from Software Heritage Dataset
Avijit Bhattacharjee, Sristy Sumana Nath, Shurui Zhou +4
The fork-based development mechanism provides the flexibility and the unified processes for software teams to collaborate easily in a distributed setting without too much coordinat…