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The widespread use of GitHub among software developers as a communal platform for coordinating software development has led to an abundant supply of publicly accessible data. Ever since the inception of Bitcoin, blockchain teams have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jeff Nijsse , Alan Litchfield

The proliferation of Open Source Software (OSS) adoption and collaboration has surged within industry, resulting in its ubiquitous presence in commercial offerings and shared digital infrastructure. However, in the public sector, both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Johan Linåker , Gregorio Robles , Deborah Bryant , Sachiko Muto

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

The use of free and open source software (OSS) is gaining momentum due to the ever increasing availability and use of the Internet. Organizations are also now adopting open source software, despite some reservations, in particular regarding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Faheem Ahmed , Piers Campbell , Ahmad Jaffar , Luiz Fernando Capretz

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 part of a research on a novel in-process multiprogramming-language interoperability system, this study investigates the interoperability and usage of multiple programming languages within a large dataset of GitHub projects and Stack…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Tsvi Cherny-Shahar , Amiram Yehudai

In open-source software development environments; textual, numerical and relationship-based data generated are of interest to researchers. Various data sets are available for this data, which is frequently used in areas such as software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Abdulkadir Şeker , Banu Diri , Halil Arslan

The development Open Source Software fundamentally depends on the participation and commitment of volunteer developers to progress. Several works have presented strategies to increase the on-boarding and engagement of new contributors, but…

Open source is the connective tissue for much of the information economy. You would be hard-pressed to find a scenario where your data does not pass through at least one open source component. Many of the services and technology we all rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nicole Forsgren , Bas Alberts , Kevin Backhouse , Grey Baker , Greg Cecarelli , Derek Jedamski , Scot Kelly , Clair Sullivan

A number of software foundations have been created as legal instruments to better articulate the structure, collaboration and financial model of Open Source Software (OSS) projects. Some examples are the Apache, Linux, or Mozilla…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo , Jordi Cabot

Software is the outcome of active and effective communication between members of an organization. This has been noted with Conway's law, which states that ``organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure.''…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Parisa Kaghazgaran , Nichola Lubold , Fred Morstatter

Hosting platforms for software projects can form collaborative social networks and a prime example of this is GitHub which is arguably the most popular platform of this kind. An open source project recommendation system could be a major…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Tadej Matek , Svit Timej Zebec

We present a dataset of open source software developed mainly by enterprises rather than volunteers. This can be used to address known generalizability concerns, and, also, to perform research on open source business software development.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Diomidis Spinellis , Zoe Kotti , Konstantinos Kravvaritis , Georgios Theodorou , Panos Louridas

Engineering software systems is a multidisciplinary activity, whereby a number of artifacts must be created - and maintained - synchronously. In this paper we investigate whether production code and the accompanying tests co-evolve by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-25 Andy Zaidman , Bart Van Rompaey , Serge Demeyer , Arie van Deursen

Faced with over 100M open source projects most empirical investigations select a subset. Most research papers in leading venues investigated filtering projects by some measure of popularity with explicit or implicit arguments that unpopular…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Addi Malviya-Thakur , Audris Mockus

The success of open source projects crucially depends on the voluntary contributions of a sufficiently large community of users. Apart from the mere size of the community, interesting questions arise when looking at the evolution of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Marcelo Serrano Zanetti , Emre Sarigol , Ingo Scholtes , Claudio Juan Tessone , Frank Schweitzer

Following code style conventions in software projects is essential for maintaining overall code quality. Adhering to these conventions improves maintainability, understandability, and extensibility. Additionally, following best practices…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Alvari Kupari , Nasser Giacaman , Valerio Terragni

As buildings are central to the social and environmental sustainability of human settlements, high-quality geospatial data are necessary to support their management and planning. Authorities around the world are increasingly collecting and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Filip Biljecki , Lawrence Zheng Xiong Chew , Nikola Milojevic-Dupont , Felix Creutzig

GitHub is the largest code hosting platform, with millions of repositories spanning multiple technologies. Despite this, little is known about the actual contents of GitHub's repositories in the wild. This paper presents an initial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Andre Hora , João Eduardo Montandon , Diego Elias Costa

Gender diversity in open source software development continues to be a topic of growing interest among researchers, practitioners, and organizations. To date, research has revealed disparities in participation between developers on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Olivia B. Newton , Jihye Song