Context: Ownership metrics measure how the workload of software modules is shared among their developers. They have been shown to be accurate indicators of software qual-ity. Objective: Since ownership metrics studies were done only on industrial software projects, we replicated such a study

Transfer of code ownership or succession is a crucial ingredient in open source projects because the source code tends to be reused and in global software development because products are offshored or outsourced. Measuring and studying such transfer can highlight the way organizations adapt to new

help to provide a refined notion of code ownership. As a case study, we analyze the developers ’ activities of the development of a commercial system. 1.

, scalability, and customizability. To address these issues, researchers are investigating a variety of innovative approaches. The most promising and intriguing ones are those based on the ability of moving code across the nodes of a network, exploiting the notion of mobile code. As an emerging research field

application, the Apache web server. By using email archives of source code change history and problem reports we quantify aspects of developer participation, core team size, code ownership, productivity, defect density, and problem resolution interval for this OSS project. This analysis reveals a unique

of their relationships. In this paper we propose to leverage code ownership information to capture relationships between source code artifacts for improving the recovery of traceability links between documentation and source code. Specifically, we extract the author of each source code com-ponent and for each author we

protections of investors, with German- and Scandinavian-civil-law countries located in the mid-dle. We also find that concentration of ownership of shares in the largest public companies is negatively related to investor protec-tions, consistent with the hypothesis that small, diversified share

Recent research on corporate governance has documented large differences between countries in ownership concentration in publicly traded firms, in the breadth and depth of financial markets, and in the access of firms to external finance. We suggest that there is a common element

being aware of any aliasing. Ownership types form a static type system that indicates object ownership. This provides a flexible mechanism to limit the visibility of object references and restrict access paths to objects, thus controlling a system's dynamic topology. The type system is shown

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