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Open-source software (OSS) supply chain security has become a topic of concern for organizations. Patching an OSS vulnerability can require updating other dependent software products in addition to the original package. However, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Cadence Patrick , Kimberly Ruth , Zakir Durumeric

The desire to build quality software systems has been the focus of most software developers and researchers for decades. This has culminated in the design of practices that promote quality in the designed software. Originating from the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Sibonile Moyo

Quality assurance makes sure the project will be completed based on the previously approved specifications, standards and functionality. It is required without defects and possible problems. It monitors and tries to progress the development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-14 Nayyar Iqbal , M. Rizwan Jameel Qureshi

Open Source Software (OSS) has been widely used in the educational environment largely due to its reduced cost of ownership. While OSS has evolved over the years, challenges exist in its implementation and wide adoption. Foremost among…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Ryan Ebardo

Open Source Software (OSS) development challenges traditional software engineering practices. In particular, OSS projects are managed by a large number of volunteers, working freely on the tasks they choose to undertake. OSS projects also…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Warren Sack , Françoise Détienne , Nicholas Ducheneaut , Jean-Marie Burkhardt , Dilan Mahendran , Flore Barcellini

A vast amount of OpenCourseWare (OCW) is meanwhile being published online to make educational content accessible to larger audiences. The awareness of such courses among users and the popularity of systems providing such courses are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Sahar Vahdati , Christoph Lange , Sören Auer

Product innovation assessment in software sector is a timely topic. Nevertheless, research on that subject is particularly scant. As a result, there is a lack of criteria to measure software innovativeness. In a context of theoretical and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Nordine Benkeltoum

As open source software (OSS) becomes increasingly mature and popular, there are significant challenges with properly accounting for usability concerns for the diverse end users. Participatory design, where multiple stakeholders collaborate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Jazlyn Hellman , Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

Commit is an important operation of revision control for open-source software (OSS). Recent research has been pursued to explore the statistical laws of such an operation, but few of those papers conduct empirical investigations on commit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Yutao Ma , Yang Wu , Youwei Xu

Software security is of utmost importance for most software systems. Developers must systematically select, plan, design, implement, and especially, maintain and evolve security features -- functionalities to mitigate attacks or protect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kevin Hermann , Sven Peldszus , Jan-Philipp Steghöfer , Thorsten Berger

Open-source software (OSS) is widely spread in industry, research, and government. OSS represents an effective development model because it harnesses the decentralized efforts of many developers in a way that scales. As OSS developers work…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-24 William Schueller , Johannes Wachs , Vito D. P. Servedio , Stefan Thurner , Vittorio Loreto

Background: Governments worldwide are considering data privacy regulations. These laws, e.g. the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), require software developers to meet privacy-related requirements when interacting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lucas Franke , Huayu Liang , Sahar Farzanehpour , Aaron Brantly , James C. Davis , Chris Brown

We have selected six myths about the OSS community and have tested whether they are true or not. The purpose of this report is to identify the lessons that can be learned from the development style of the OSS community and the issues that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yukako Iimura , Masanari Kondo , Kazushi Tomoto , Yasutaka Kamei , Naoyasu Ubayashi , Shinobu Saito

This paper presents a tertiary review of software quality measurement research. To conduct this review, we examined an initial dataset of 7,811 articles and found 75 relevant and high-quality secondary analyses of software quality research.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kaylea Champion , Sejal Khatri , Benjamin Mako Hill

The gender gap is a significant concern facing the software industry as the development becomes more geographically distributed. Widely shared reports indicate that gender differences may be specific to each region. However, how complete…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Gede Artha Azriadi Prana , Denae Ford , Ayushi Rastogi , David Lo , Rahul Purandare , Nachiappan Nagappan

Context: Software refactoring aims to improve software quality and developer productivity. Numerous empirical studies investigating the impact of refactoring activities on software quality have been conducted over the last two decades.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Satnam Kaur , Paramvir Singh

This paper explores the application of functional data analysis (FDA) as a means to study the dynamics of software evolution in the open source context. Several challenges in analyzing the data from software projects are discussed, an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Katherine J. Stewart , David P. Darcy , Sherae L. Daniel

[Context] Open Source Software (OSS) is nowadays used and integrated in most of the commercial products. However, the selection of OSS projects for integration is not a simple process, mainly due to a of lack of clear selection models and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Xiaozhou Li , Sergio Moreschini , Zheying Zhang , Davide Taibi

In the early 1980s, Open Source Software emerged as a revolutionary concept amidst the dominance of proprietary software. What began as a revolutionary idea has now become the cornerstone of computer science. Amidst OSS projects, AI is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Matteo Esposito , Andrea Janes , Valentina Lenarduzzi , Davide Taibi

Open-source software (OSS) has become increasingly more popular across different domains. However, this rapid development and widespread adoption come with a security cost. The growing complexity and openness of OSS ecosystems have led to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Seyed Ali Akhavani , Behzad Ousat , Amin Kharraz