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The sustainability of open source software (OSS) projects hinges on contributor retention. Interpersonal challenges can inhibit a feeling of welcomeness among contributors, particularly from underrepresented groups, which impacts their…

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Contributors to open source software (OSS) communities assume diverse roles to take different responsibilities. One major limitation of the current OSS tools and platforms is that they provide a uniform user interface regardless of the…

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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

The Open Source Software movement has been growing exponentially for a number of years with no signs of slowing. Driving this growth is the widespread availability of libraries and frameworks that provide many functionalities. Developers…

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Context: Software-intensive organizations' rationale for sharing Open Source Software (OSS) may be driven by both idealistic, strategic and commercial objectives, and include both monetary as well as non-monetary benefits. To gain the…

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User forums of Open Source Software (OSS) enable end-users to collaboratively discuss problems concerning the OSS applications. Despite decades of research on OSS, we know very little about how end-users engage with OSS communities on these…

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In recent years, open-source software (OSS) has become increasingly prevalent in developing software products. While OSS documentation is the primary source of information provided by the developers' community about a product, its role in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Aaron Imani , Shiva Radmanesh , Iftekhar Ahmed , Mohammad Moshirpour

Invisible labor is an intrinsic part of the modern workplace, and includes labor that is undervalued or unrecognized such as creating collaborative atmospheres. Open source software (OSS) is software that is viewable, editable and shareable…

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Tools and artifacts produced by open source software (OSS) have been woven into the foundation of the technology industry. To keep this foundation intact, the open source community needs to actively invest in sustainable approaches to bring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Mariam Guizani , Thomas Zimmermann , Anita Sarma , Denae Ford

Software quality assurance has been a heated topic for several decades, but relatively few analyses were performed on open source software (OSS). As OSS has become very popular in our daily life, many researchers have been keen on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Jie Xu , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Danny Ho

The open source software (OSS) assessment has become important given the increased adoption of OSS in commercial product development. Researchers proposed many OSS assessment models. However, little is known about the industrial relevance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Sai Pranav Koyyada , Denim Deshmukh Deepika Badampudi , Vida Ahmadi , Muhammad Usman

Success in Open Source Software (OSS) is often perceived as an exclusively code-centric endeavor. This perception can exclude a variety of individuals with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds, in turn helping create the current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Bianca Trinkenreich , Mariam Guizani , Igor Wiese , Tayana Conte , Marco Gerosa , Anita Sarma , Igor Steinmacher

Easy and mostly free access to the internet has resulted in the growing use of open source software (OSS). However, it is a common perception that closed proprietary software is still superior in areas such as software maintenance and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Arif Raza , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

Code reviews are a critical aspect of open-source software (OSS) development, ensuring quality and fostering collaboration. This study examines perceptions, challenges, and biases in OSS code review processes, focusing on the perspectives…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yoseph Berhanu Alebachew , Minhyuk Ko , Chris Brown

Software bots, extensively adopted by Open Source Software (OSS) projects, support developers across several activities, from automating predefined tasks to generating code that aids software engineers. However, with the growing prominence…

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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

Being able to access software in daily life is vital for everyone, and thus accessibility is a fundamental challenge for software development. However, given the number of accessibility issues reported by many users, e.g., in app reviews,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Tingting Bi , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Thomas Zimmermann , Denae Ford

Software has gained immense importance in our everyday lifeand is handling each and every aspect of today's technologicalworld. The idea of software at initial phase was implemented bya very precise minority of individual and now it's…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Umer Farooq , M. Aqeel Iqbal , Usman Shabbir , Sohail Nazir

In recent years, concerns have increased over the lack of contributor diversity in open source software (OSS), despite its status as a paragon of open collaboration. OSS is an important form of digital infrastructure and part of a career…

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The use of free and open source software 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 the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Faheem Ahmed , Piers Campbell , Ahmad Jaffar , Luiz Fernando Capretz