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An empirical study of build maintenance effort
2011
Proceeding of the 33rd international conference on Software engineering - ICSE '11
The build system of a software project is responsible for transforming source code and other development artifacts into executable programs and deliverables. Similar to source code, build system specifications require maintenance to cope with newly implemented features, changes to imported Application Program Interfaces (APIs), and source code restructuring. In this paper, we mine the version histories of one proprietary and nine open source projects of different sizes and domain to analyze the
doi:10.1145/1985793.1985813
dblp:conf/icse/McIntoshANKH11
fatcat:j3uku6f3cnc25cv2psltdma4se