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Open Source Software (OSS) projects offer valuable opportunities to train the next generation of software engineers while benefiting projects and society as a whole. While research has extensively explored student participation in OSS and…

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In this paper two intensive problems faced during software application's analysis and development process arose by the software industry are briefly conversed i.e. identification of fault proneness and increase in rate of variability in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-11-16 Zeeshan Ahmed , Saman Majeed

When Computer Science (CS) students try to use or extend open-source software (OSS) projects, they often encounter the common challenge of OSS failing to build on their local machines. Even though OSS often provides ready-to-build packages,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sunzhou Huang , Na Meng , Xueqing Liu , Xiaoyin Wang

[Context and motivation] Ecosystems developed as Open Source Software (OSS) are considered to be highly innovative and reactive to new market trends due to their openness and wide-ranging contributor base. Participation in OSS often implies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Johan Linåker , Patrick Rempel , Björn Regnell , Patrick Mäder

Encompassing a diverse population of developers, non-technical users, and other stakeholders, open source software (OSS) development has expanded to broader social movements from the initial product development aims. Ideology, as a coherent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yang Yue , Yi Wang , David Redmiles

A tenet of open source software development is to accept contributions from users-developers (typically after appropriate vetting). But should this also include interventions done as part of research on open source development? Following an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Dror G. Feitelson

Background: Contemporary software development organizations lack diversity and the ratios of women in Free and open-source software (FOSS) communities are even lower than the industry average. Although the results of recent studies hint the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Sayma Sultana , Amiangshu Bosu

Context: An increasing demand is observed in various domains to employ Machine Learning (ML) for solving complex problems. ML models are implemented as software components and deployed in Machine Learning Software Systems (MLSSs). Problem:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Pierre-Olivier Côté , Amin Nikanjam , Rached Bouchoucha , Foutse Khomh

Background: Research software plays an important role in solving real-life problems, empowering scientific innovations, and handling emergency situations. Therefore, the correctness and trustworthiness of research software are of absolute…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Nasir U. Eisty , Jeffrey C. Carver

Open source software is becoming crucial in the design and testing of quantum algorithms. Many of the tools are backed by major commercial vendors with the goal to make it easier to develop quantum software: this mirrors how well-funded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Mark Fingerhuth , Tomáš Babej , Peter Wittek

According to different opponents and commercial giants in software industries, the open source style software development has enough capacity to complete successfully the large scale projects. But we have seen many flaws and loops in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Murtaza Hussain Shaikh

Actually, software products are increasing in a fast way and are used in almost all activities of human life. Consequently measuring and evaluating the quality of a software product has become a critical task for many companies. Several…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Jose P. Miguel , David Mauricio , Glen Rodriguez

Many software projects are no longer done in-house by a single organization. Instead, we are in a new age where software is developed by a networked community of individuals and organizations, which base their relations to each other on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Jose Teixeira , Gregorio Robles , Jesús González-Barahona

System safety refers to a diverse engineering discipline assessing and improving various aspects of safety in socio-technical systems and their software-intensive sub-systems. While system safety has been a vital area of applied research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Mario Gleirscher , Anne Nyokabi

Over the last several decades, computer games started to have a significant impact on society. However, although a computer game is a type of software, the process to conceptualize, produce and deliver a game could involve unusual features.…

Over the past few decades, open source software has been continuously integrated into software supply chains worldwide, drastically increasing reliance and dependence. Because of the role this software plays, it is important to understand…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Elijah Kayode Adejumo , Brittany Johnson

The software product is a source of cyber-attacks that target organizations by using their software supply chain as a distribution vector. As the reliance of software projects on open-source or proprietary modules is increasing drastically,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Betul Gokkaya , Leonardo Aniello , Basel Halak

Real-world software applications must constantly evolve to remain relevant. This evolution occurs when developing new applications or adapting existing ones to meet new requirements, make corrections, or incorporate future functionality.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Sebastian Hönel

Allowing swift release cycles, Continuous Delivery has become popular in application software development and is starting to be applied in safety-critical domains such as the automotive industry. These domains require thorough analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Sebastian Vöst , Stefan Wagner

The open-source software (OSS) ecosystem suffers from security threats caused by malware.However, OSS malware research has three limitations: a lack of high-quality datasets, a lack of malware diversity, and a lack of attack campaign…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Xiaoyan Zhou , Ying Zhang , Wenjia Niu , Jiqiang Liu , Haining Wang , Qiang Li