Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Software Maintenance and Evolution Research. Gu�h�neuc, Y. & Mens, T. In Gu�h�neuc, Y. & Mens, T., editors, Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), volume 20, 1, pages 1193–1197. Springer, February, 2015. 4 pages.
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The past decade has seen tremendous changes in the landscape of software engineering activities in industry and of software engineering research topics in academia. Software engineering activities used to be mostly ``hidden'' behind the closed doors of software industries. In the 1990's, the emergence of the open-source development model and movement revolutionized software development but also software engineering research. Nowadays, open-source software (OSS) development has become a major source of new libraries and programs, and more and more industries either use OSS or even release OSS themselves. Even large corporations, in which trade secrets were the norm, now consider releasing their source code as open-source, for example Microsoft with its Windows operating system.

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