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2012
Barr, E.T., Bird, C., Rigby, P.C., Hindle, Abram, German, D.M., Devanbu, P.T.
The adoption of distributed version control (DVC ), such as Git and Mercurial, in open-source software (OSS) projects has been explosive. Why is this and how are projects using DVC? This new generation of version control supports two important new features: distributed repositories and histories...
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2014
Hindle, Abram, Bird, C., Zimmermann, T., Nagappan, N.
Large organizations like Microsoft tend to rely on formal requirements documentation in order to specify and design the software products that they develop. These documents are meant to be tightly coupled with the actual implementation of the features they describe. In this paper we evaluate the...
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Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis: Do Topics Extracted from Requirements Make Sense to Managers and Developers?
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Hindle, Abram, Bird, C., Zimmermann, T., Nagappan, N.
Large organizations like Microsoft tend to rely on formal requirements documentation in order to specify and design the software products that they develop. These documents are meant to be tightly coupled with the actual implementation of the features they describe. In this paper we evaluate the...