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Longitudinal Analysis of Modularity and Modifications of OSS

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The open source software systems are always evolving with the additions of new features, bug fixes and collaboration of many developers often around the world. The modularity of the system metrics help to better understand the characteristics of the system and guarantee the quality of software. In this article, we will compare the evolution of some software metrics, in particular complexity and coupling, with the evolution of the number of bug fixes, additions and features contributions from developers over software versions. Showing that the bug fixes, adding features and contribution of developers exerts a strong influence on the increase of the metrics.

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  1. Center of Informatics, Federal University of Paraíba, S/N 58, João Pessoa, Paraíba, 058-600, Brazil

    Gabriel Rolim, Everaldo Andrade, Danielle Silva & Eudisley Anjos

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  1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A.C. Rocha

  5. Polytechnic University, Bari, Italy

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  6. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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  7. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

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  8. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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  9. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Shangguang Wang

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Rolim, G., Andrade, E., Silva, D., Anjos, E. (2016). Longitudinal Analysis of Modularity and Modifications of OSS. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9790. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42092-9_28

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