Chapter. Survey of Components and Projects

Rosalva Gallardo-Valencia is a PhD Candidate at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine under the supervision of Professor Susan Sim. Rosalva conducts empirical studies on software engineering, specifically on source code search on the Web and Agile methodologies. She has six years of experience developing applications for telecommunication and financial organizations.

Susan Elliott Sim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine. Her primary research area is empirical software engineering, with particular attention to program comprehension, source code searching on the web, research methodology, and software process for small companies.