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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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Existing innovation metrics inadequately capture software innovation, creating blind spots for researchers and policymakers seeking to understand and foster technological innovation in an increasingly software-defined economy. This paper…

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This systematic literature review examines the critical challenges and solutions related to scalability and maintainability in Machine Learning (ML) systems. As ML applications become increasingly complex and widespread across industries,…

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Understanding how software defects manifest and evolve in production environments is critical for improving reliability. While previous research has largely focused on pre-release defects, the nature of residual faults, i.e., those escaping…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Domenico Cotroneo , Giuseppe De Rosa , Cristina Improta , Benedetta Gaia Varriale

Software developers and maintainers need to read and understand source programs and other software artifacts. The increase in size and complexity of software drastically affects several quality attributes, especially understandability and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Mohd Nazir , Raees A. Khan , Khurram Mustafa

Software reliability analysis is performed at various stages during the process of engineering software as an attempt to evaluate if the software reliability requirements have been (or might be) met. In this report, I present a summary of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Ganesh J. Pai

Context: Mining software repositories is a popular means to gain insights into a software project's evolution, monitor project health, support decisions and derive best practices. Tools supporting the mining process are commonly applied by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Nicole Hoess , Carlos Paradis , Rick Kazman , Wolfgang Mauerer

This paper presents a tertiary review of software quality measurement research. To conduct this review, we examined an initial dataset of 7,811 articles and found 75 relevant and high-quality secondary analyses of software quality research.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kaylea Champion , Sejal Khatri , Benjamin Mako Hill

Software engineering and information systems practices seek ultimately to create the flawless product. One of the tools used to improve the quality of software development is the use of metrics. In this paper, metrics retrieved from open…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Mamdouh Alenezi , Ibrahim Abunadi

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

Open source projects play a significant role in software production. Most of the software projects reuse and build upon the existing open source projects and libraries. While reusing is a time and cost-saving strategy, some of the key…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Javad Ghofrani , Paria Heravi , Kambiz A. Babaei , Mohammad Soorati

Software measurement is an essential management tool to develop robust and maintainable software systems. Software metrics can be used to control the inherent complexities in software design. To guarantee that the components of the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Mamdouh Alenezi

Context: Large embedded systems in vehicles tend to grow in size and complexity, which causes challenges when maintaining these systems. Objective: We explore how developers perceive the relation between maintainability effort and various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Bengt Haraldsson , Miroslaw Staron

Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the use of open source projects by common novice users; Open Source Software (OSS) is thus no longer a reserved arena for software developers and computer gurus. Although user-centered designs are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Arif Raza , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

Context: Software testability is the degree to which a software system or a unit under test supports its own testing. To predict and improve software testability, a large number of techniques and metrics have been proposed by both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Vahid Garousi , Michael Felderer , Feyza Nur Kilicaslan

Software sustainability is a key multifaceted non-functional requirement that encompasses environmental, social, and economic concerns, yet its integration into the development of Machine Learning (ML)-enabled systems remains an open…

Scientific software is essential to scientific innovation and in many ways it is distinct from other types of software. Abandoned (or unmaintained), buggy, and hard to use software, a perception often associated with scientific software can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Addi Malviya Thakur , Reed Milewicz , Mahmoud Jahanshahi , Lavínia Paganini , Bogdan Vasilescu , Audris Mockus

In open-source software (OSS), software vulnerabilities have significantly increased. Although researchers have investigated the perspectives of vulnerability reporters and OSS contributor security practices, understanding the perspectives…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jessy Ayala , Yu-Jye Tung , Joshua Garcia

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