Title :
Open Source Evolution Analysis
Author :
Alsmadi, Izzat ; Magel, Kenneth
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Dakota State Univ.
Abstract :
Source code analysis is important for software management. It enables us to recognize strengths and weaknesses in our earlier projects or releases. We developed a source code analysis tool. This tool gathers several metrics from C/C++, C# or Java source codes. In this paper, we use the tool to analyze some of the open source code projects. We study the selected projects release evolutions and compare some characteristics between the same project releases, as well as among different projects. Different programming language code and development styles are studied through those open source projects
Keywords :
data flow analysis; project management; public domain software; software management; software metrics; software tools; open source evolution analysis; software management; source code analysis tool; Computer languages; Computer science; Data mining; Java; Knowledge management; Lab-on-a-chip; Object oriented modeling; Open source software; Software metrics; Software quality;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance, 2006. ICSM '06. 22nd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2354-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSM.2006.45
