by Noel Carroll | Mar 27, 2019 | Community, Process, research
Open Source software (OSS) has been highly prevalent in both practice and research. Given the value and effectiveness of OSS development to date, practitioners are keen to replicate these practices inside their respective corporations. This application of OSS...
by Manish Motwani | Mar 12, 2019 | Code, Community
Automated program repair techniques use a buggy program and a partial specification (typically a test suite) to produce a program variant that satisfies the specification. The number of publications per year in this area of research has increased by an order of...
by Aditya Johri | Mar 5, 2019 | Community, research
The continuing digitization of work has resulted in renewed calls for those in the education profession to re-examine how people learn in digitized settings. Especially in computing and engineering fields, there is increasing interest to better understand how people...
by Javier Cánovas | Nov 29, 2018 | Community, research
In the last years, a number of Open-Source Systems (OSS) have created parallel foundations, as legal instruments to better articulate the structure, collaboration and financial model for the project. Some examples are Apache, Linux, Mozilla, Eclipse or Django...
by Jordi Cabot | Sep 21, 2018 | Community
Software is the infrastructure that powers our digital society. And most of this software is either Open Source Software (OSS) or heavily relies on it. And while this is great news in many ways, it’s also a huge problem, given that most open source projects face...
by Jordi Cabot | Aug 14, 2018 | AI, Community, research
We live in a software-enabled world. Software is the infrastructure that powers our digital society. And yet, software development is in a permanent state of crisis. Improvements in programming tools, languages and methods have not been able to keep up with the...
