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Open source software development, particularly within institutions such as universities and research laboratories, is often decentralized and difficult to track. Although academic teams produce many impactful scientific tools, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Juanita Gomez , Emily Lovell , Stephanie Lieggi , Alvaro A. Cardenas , James Davis

GitHub recommends that projects adopt a security file that outlines vulnerability reporting procedures. However, the effectiveness and operational challenges of such files are not yet fully understood. This study aims to clarify the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Rintaro Kanaji , Brittany Reid , Yutaro Kashiwa , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Hajimu Iida

Current paper reports the advantages of the application of GitHub and LaTeX for the MSc thesis writing. The existing code-based program implemented in GitHub portal provides a great tool for scientists and students for data sharing and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Polina Lemenkova

One in five arXiv articles published in 2021 contained a URI to a Git Hosting Platform (GHP), which demonstrates the growing prevalence of GHP URIs in scholarly publications. However, GHP URIs are vulnerable to the same reference rot that…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Emily Escamilla , Martin Klein , Talya Cooper , Vicky Rampin , Michele C. Weigle , Michael L. Nelson

Large-scale software development has become a highly collaborative and geographically distributed endeavour, especially in open-source software development ecosystems and their associated developer communities. It has given rise to modern…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mairieli Wessel , Tom Mens , Alexandre Decan , Pooya Rostami Mazrae

Open source software (OSS), playing an increasingly critical role nowadays, has been commonly adopted and integrated in various software products. For many practitioners, selecting and adopting suitable OSS can help them greatly. Though…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xiaozhou Li , Sergio Moreschini

Storing user-specific configuration files in a "dotfiles" repository is a common practice among software developers, with hundreds of thousands choosing to publicly host their repositories on GitHub. This practice not only provides…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Wenhan Zhu , Michael W. Godfrey

The fork-based development mechanism provides the flexibility and the unified processes for software teams to collaborate easily in a distributed setting without too much coordination overhead.Currently, multiple social coding platforms…

The open-source community uses the GitHub platform to exchange and share software applications and services of interest. This paper aims to identify the open-source community's interest in gender-related projects on GitHub. Our findings…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Rita Garcia , Christoph Treude , Wendy La

Relational databases have limited support for data collaboration, where teams collaboratively curate and analyze large datasets. Inspired by software version control systems like git, we propose (a) a dataset version control system, giving…

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

With an ever-increasing amount of open source software, the popularity of services like GitHub that facilitate code reuse, and common misconceptions about the licensing of open source software, the problem of license violations in the code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yaroslav Golubev , Maria Eliseeva , Nikita Povarov , Timofey Bryksin

Bug reports provide critical insights into software quality, yet existing datasets often suffer from limited scope, outdated content, or insufficient metadata for machine learning. To address these limitations, we present GitBugs-a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Avinash Patil , Siru Tao , Aryan Jadon

GitHub is the largest source code repository in the world. It provides a git-based source code management platform and also many features inspired by social networks. For example, GitHub users can show appreciation to projects by adding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Hudson Borges , Andre Hora , Marco Tulio Valente

GitHub is the largest host of open source software on the Internet. This large, freely accessible database has attracted the attention of practitioners and researchers alike. But as GitHub's growth continues, it is becoming increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Francisco Zanartu , Christoph Treude , Bruno Cartaxo , Hudson Silva Borges , Pedro Moura , Markus Wagner , Gustavo Pinto

DevOps is a combination of methodologies and tools that improves the software development, build, deployment, and monitoring processes by shortening its lifecycle and improving software quality. Part of this process is CI/CD, which embodies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Hugo da Gião , André Flores , Rui Pereira , Jácome Cunha

In many academic disciplines, software is created during the research process or for a research purpose. The crucial role of software for research is increasingly acknowledged. The application of software engineering to research software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Stephan Druskat , Lars Grunske

[Background] In large open-source software projects, development knowledge is often fragmented across multiple artefacts and contributors such that individual stakeholders are generally unaware of the full breadth of the product features.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tim Puhlfürß , Lloyd Montgomery , Walid Maalej

This study addresses challenges in traditional assignment submission methods used in higher education by introducing and evaluating a customized Git-based submission system. Employing iterative software development and user-centered design…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ololade Babatunde , Tomisin Ayodabo , Raqibul Raqibul

Currently, most machine learning models are trained by centralized teams and are rarely updated. In contrast, open-source software development involves the iterative development of a shared artifact through distributed collaboration using a…