Social interactions around cross-system bug fixings
Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Marta Cimitile, Massimiliano Di Penta · 2011
Cross-system bug fixing propagation is frequent among systems having similar characteristics, using a common framework, or, in general, systems with cloned source code fragments. While previous studies showed that clones tend to be properly maintained within a single system, very little is known about cross-system bug management.