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According to different opponents and commercial giants in software industries, the open source style software development has enough capacity to complete successfully the large scale projects. But we have seen many flaws and loops in…

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Defect Prevention is the most critical but most neglected component of the software quality assurance in any project. If applied at all stages of software development, it can reduce the time, cost and resources required to engineer a high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Suma V. , T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, addressing security vulnerabilities in open-source software (OSS) has become critically important. However, existing research and tools from both academia and industry mainly relied…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lyuye Zhang , Jiahui Wu , Chengwei Liu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaoyu Sun , Lida Zhao , Chong Wang , Yang Liu

This article delves into the strategic approaches and preventive measures necessary to safeguard the software supply chain against evolving threats. It aims to foster an understanding of the challenges and vulnerabilities inherent in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Ahmed Akinsola , Abdullah Akinde

As the role of information and communication technologies gradually increases in our lives, source code security becomes a significant issue to protect against malicious attempts Furthermore with the advent of data-driven techniques, there…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Maryam Taeb

Human error research on overconfidence supports the benefits of early visibility of defects and disciplined development. If risk to the enterprise is to be reduced, individuals need to become aware of the reality of the quality of their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-25 Patrick O'Beirne

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

This paper presents the core principles of reliability in software engineering - outlining why reliability testing is critical and specifying the process of measuring reliability. The paper provides insight for both novice and experts in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Kevin Taylor-Sakyi

Many dependability techniques expect certain behaviors from the underlying subsystems and fail in chaotic ways if these expectations are not met. Under expected circumstances, however, software tends to work quite well. This paper suggests…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 George Candea

The widespread adoption of cloud computing has resulted in the proliferation of open source cloud computing frameworks that give more control to enterprises over their data and networks. Though the benefits of open source software are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Irum Rauf , Elena Troubitsyna

Context: Coordination is a fundamental tenet of software engineering. Coordination is required also for identifying discovered and disclosed software vulnerabilities with Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Motivated by recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Jukka Ruohonen , Sampsa Rauti , Sami Hyrynsalmi , Ville Leppänen

Open-source software (OSS) vulnerability management process is important nowadays, as the number of discovered OSS vulnerabilities is increasing over time. Monitoring vulnerability-fixing commits is a part of the standard process to prevent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Truong Giang Nguyen , Thanh Le-Cong , Hong Jin Kang , Xuan-Bach D. Le , David Lo

Agile and DevOps are widely adopted by the industry. Hence, integrating security activities with industrial practices, such as continuous integration (CI) pipelines, is necessary to detect security flaws and adhere to regulators' demands…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Florian Angermeir , Markus Voggenreiter , Fabiola Moyón , Daniel Mendez

The absolute majority of software today is developed collaboratively using collaborative version control tools such as Git. It is a common practice that once a vulnerability is detected and fixed, the developers behind the software issue a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Nitzan Farhi , Noam Koenigstein , Yuval Shavitt

Users around the world rely on software-intensive systems in their day-to-day activities. These systems regularly contain bugs and security vulnerabilities. To facilitate bug fixing, data-driven models of automatic program repair use pairs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Anastasiia Grishina

Third-party library dependencies are commonplace in today's software development. With the growing threat of security vulnerabilities, applying security fixes in a timely manner is important to protect software systems. As such, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ayano Ikegami , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Bodin Chinthanet , Vittunyuta Maeprasart , Ali Ouni , Takashi Ishio , Kenichi Matsumoto

Open source software vulnerabilities pose significant security risks to downstream applications. While vulnerability databases provide valuable information for mitigation, many security patches are released silently in new commits of OSS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yiran Cheng , Ting Zhang , Lwin Khin Shar , Zhe Lang , David Lo , Shichao Lv , Dongliang Fang , Zhiqiang Shi , Limin Sun

Software vulnerabilities are commonly exploited as attack vectors in cyberattacks. Hence, it is crucial to identify vulnerable software configurations early to apply preventive measures. Effective vulnerability detection relies on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Devesh Sawant , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Atul Kabra

With the boom in modern software development, open-source software has become an integral part of various industries, driving progress in computer science. However, the immense complexity and diversity of the open-source ecosystem also pose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yueming Wu , Chengwei Liu , Yang Liu

In Open Source Software, resources of any project are open for reuse by introducing dependencies or copying the resource itself. In contrast to dependency-based reuse, the infrastructure to systematically support copy-based reuse appears to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Mahmoud Jahanshahi , David Reid , Audris Mockus