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Software applications integrate more and more open-source software (OSS) to benefit from code reuse. As a drawback, each vulnerability discovered in bundled OSS potentially affects the application. Upon the disclosure of every new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Henrik Plate , Serena Elisa Ponta , Antonino Sabetta

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

Open source software (OSS) development relies on diverse skill sets. However, to our knowledge, there are no tools which detect OSS-related skills. In this paper, we present a novel method to detect OSS skills and prototype it in a tool…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Jenny T. Liang , Thomas Zimmermann , Denae Ford

The development of open source software (OSS) is a broad field which requires diverse skill sets. For example, maintainers help lead the project and promote its longevity, technical writers assist with documentation, bug reporters identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jenny T. Liang , Thomas Zimmermann , Denae Ford

Open Source Software (OSS) forms much of the fabric of our digital society, especially successful and sustainable ones. But many OSS projects do not become sustainable, resulting in abandonment and even risks for the world's digital…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Likang Yin , Mahasweta Chakraborty , Charles Schweik , Seth Frey , Vladimir Filkov

Open Source Software (OSS) projects follow diverse lifecycle trajectories shaped by evolving patterns of contribution, coordination, and community engagement. Understanding these trajectories is essential for stakeholders seeking to assess…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-16 S M Rakib Ul Karim , Wenyi Lu , Enock Kasaadha , Sean Goggins

Open Source Software (OSS) has been a popular form in software development. In this paper, we use statistical approaches to derive OSS quality estimation models. Our objective is to build estimation models for the number of defects with…

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

The use of spreadsheets is widespread. Be it in business, finance, engineering or other areas, spreadsheets are created for their flexibility and ease to quickly model a problem. Very often they evolve from simple prototypes to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-30 José Pedro Correia , Miguel A. Ferreira

Context: Open Source Software (OSS) is a vital public good, included across most of modern software stacks, significantly impacting GDP and national tech growth, while supporting interoperability, sovereignty, and transparency. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Johan Linåker , Sachiko Muto

Open Source Software (OSS) is a cornerstone of contemporary software development, yet the increasing prevalence of OSS project abandonment threatens global software supply chains. Although previous research has explored abandonment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yiming Xu , Runzhi He , Hengzhi Ye , Minghui Zhou , Huaimin Wang

Context and motivation: Contribution Management helps firms engaged in Open Source Software (OSS) ecosystems to motivate what they should contribute and when, but also what they should focus their resources on and to what extent. Such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Johan Linåker , Björn Regnell

Open Source Software (OSS) ecosystems have reshaped the ways how software-intensive firms develop products and deliver value to customers. However, firms still need support for strategic product planning in terms of what to develop…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Johan Linåker , Hussan Munir , Krzysztof Wnuk , Carl-Eric Mols

Open Source Software (OSS) often relies on large repositories, like SourceForge, for initial incubation. The OSS repositories offer a large variety of meta-data providing interesting information about projects and their success. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-05-01 George Tsatsaronis , Maria Halkidi , Emmanouel A. Giakoumakis

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Eva Maxfield Brown , Cailean Osborne , Peter Cihon , Moritz Böhmecke-Schwafert , Kevin Xu , Mirko Boehm , Knut Blind

Open-source software (OSS) is widely spread in industry, research, and government. OSS represents an effective development model because it harnesses the decentralized efforts of many developers in a way that scales. As OSS developers work…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-24 William Schueller , Johannes Wachs , Vito D. P. Servedio , Stefan Thurner , Vittorio Loreto

Open-source software (OSS) is foundational to modern digital infrastructure, yet this context for group work continues to struggle to ensure sufficient contributions in many critical cases. This literature review explores how artificial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 S M Rakib UI Karim , Wenyi Lu , Sean Goggins

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Danyellias Vaz de Lima Manso , Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto , Mohamad Kassab

Open source software is a rapidly evolving center for distributed work, and understanding the characteristics of this work across its different contexts is vital for informing policy, economics, and the design of enabling software. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Wenyi Lu , Enock Kasaadah , S M Rakib Ul Karim , Matt Germonprez , Sean Goggins

Motivation: Society's dependence on Open Source Software (OSS) and the communities that maintain the OSS is ever-growing. So are the potential risks of, e.g., vulnerabilities being introduced in projects not actively maintained. By…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Johan Linåker , Efi Papatheocharous , Thomas Olsson

A number of companies are trying to migrate large monolithic software systems to Service Oriented Architectures. A common approach to do this is to first identify and describe desired services (i.e., create a model), and then to locate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-12-21 Hari S. Gupta , Deepak D'Souza , Raghavan Komondoor , Girish M. Rama