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Improving Open Source Software Maintenance
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Changes in cognitive complexity with the change in the number of reported bugs, time taken to fix the bugs, and contributions from new developers are examined and are all found to be statistically significant.Abstract:
Maintenance is inevitable for almost any software. Software
maintenance is required to fix bugs, to add new features, to
improve performance, and/or to adapt to a changed environment.
In this article, we examine change in cognitive complexity and its
impacts on maintenance in the context of open source software
(OSS). Relationships of the change in cognitive complexity with
the change in the number of reported bugs, time taken to fix the
bugs, and contributions from new developers are examined and
are all found to be statistically significant. In addition, several
control variables, such as software size, age, development status,
and programmer skills are included in the analyses. The results
have strong implications for OSS project administrators; they
must continually measure software complexity and be actively
involved in managing it in order to have successful and sustainable
OSS products.read more
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