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Developing software with the source code open to the public is prevalent; however, similar to its closed counter part, open-source has quality problems, which cause functional failures, such as program breakdowns, and non-functional, such…

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For teams using distributed version control systems, the right collaborative development workflows can help maintaining the long-term quality of project repositories and improving work efficiency. Despite the fact that the workflows are…

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The usability of open-source software (OSS) is important but frequently overlooked in favor of technical and functional complexity. Argumentation can be a pivotal device for diverse stakeholders in OSS usability discussions to express…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Arghavan Sanei , Chaima Amiri , Atefeh Shokrizadeh , Jinghui Cheng

Open source software projects usually acknowledge contributions with text files, websites, and other idiosyncratic methods. These data sources are hard to mine, which is why contributorship is most frequently measured through changes to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jean-Gabriel Young , Amanda Casari , Katie McLaughlin , Milo Z. Trujillo , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , James P. Bagrow

Over the past year, many developers and other technology professionals have transitioned to a remote-first world, as COVID-19 pressed organizations to support working from home whenever possible. This shift quickly changed the routines and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nicole Forsgren , Greg Ceccarelli , Derek Jedamski , Scot Kelly , Clair Sullivan

The software process model consists of a set of activities undertaken to design, develop and maintain software systems. A variety of software process models have been designed to structure, describe and prescribe the software development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Rupinder Kaur , Jyotsna Sengupta

Although OSS development is very popular, ultimately more than 80 percent of OSS projects fail. Identifying the factors associated with OSS success can help in devising interventions when a project takes a downturn. OSS success has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Likang Yin , Zhunagzhi Chen , Qi Xuan , Vladimir Filkov

In the constantly evolving world of software development, switching back and forth between tasks has become the norm. While task switching often allows developers to perform tasks effectively and may increase creativity via the flexible…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad , Mohammad Noaeen , Didar Zowghi , Behrouz H. Far , Ken Barker

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

Nowadays, Computer Science tightly entered all spheres of human activity. To improve quality and speed of development process, it is important to help programmers improve their working conditions. This paper proposes a vision on exploring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Rozaliya Amirova , Sergey Masyagin , Anastasia Reprintseva , Giancarlo Succi , Herman Tarasau

The social community in open source software developers has a complex network structure. The network structure represents the relations between the project and the engineer in the software developer's community. A project forms some teams…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Takumi Ichimura , Takuya Uemoto

A rapidly growing body of research is examining how LLMs influence developers when they code. To date, this research has tended to focus on productivity and code quality outcomes, rather than the underlying cognitive processes involved in…

Forking-based development has made it easier and straightforward for developers to contribute to open-source software (OSS). Developers can fork an existing project and add changes in their local version without interrupting the development…

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Software companies and startups often follow the idea of flourishing happiness among developers. Perks, playground rooms, free breakfast, remote office options, sports facilities near the companies, company retreats, you name it. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Daniel Graziotin , Fabian Fagerholm

Software has a longstanding association with a state of crisis considering its success rate. The explosion of Internet-connected devices, Internet-of-Things, adds to the complexity of software systems. The particular characteristics of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-13 João Pedro Dias , Hugo Sereno Ferreira

Open source software ecosystems consist of thousands of interdependent libraries, which users can combine to great effect. Recent work has pointed out two kinds of risks in these systems: that technical problems like bugs and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-11 William Schueller , Johannes Wachs

Free and open source software (FOSS) is considered by many, along with Wikipedia, the proof of an ongoing paradigm shift from hierarchically-managed and market-driven production of knowledge to heterarchical, collaborative and commons-based…

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Open Source Software (OSS) project success relies on crowd contributions. When an issue arises in pull-request based systems, @-mentions are used to call on people to task; previous studies have shown that @-mentions in discussions are…

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