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Effort estimation models are a fundamental tool in software management, and used as a forecast for resources, constraints and costs associated to software development. For Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, effort estimation is…

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Background: Sustainable software engineering (SSE) means creating software in a way that meets present needs without undermining our collective capacity to meet our future needs. It is typically conceptualized as several intersecting…

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Open Source Software (OSS) communities often resist regulation typical of traditional organizations. Yet formal governance systems are being increasingly adopted among communities, particularly through non-profit mentor foundations. Our…

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Software quality in use comprises quality from the user's perspective. It has gained its importance in e-government applications, mobile-based applications, embedded systems, and even business process development. User's decisions on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Issa Atoum , Chih How Bong

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…

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Comparing the quality of software written in different computer languages is required in a variety of scenarios, e.g. multi-language projects or application selection process among candidates in different languages. We focus on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Christophe Ponsard , Gustavo Ospina , Denis Darquennes

Software development organisations aim to stay effective and efficient amid growing system complexity. To address this, they often form small teams focused on separate components that can be independently developed, tested, and deployed.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ehsan Zabardast , Javier Gonzalez-Huerta , Francis Palma , Panagiota Chatzipetrou

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…

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Open Source Software (OSS) has been recognized by the software development community as an effective way to deliver software. Unlike traditional software development, OSS development is driven by collaboration among developers spread…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Bianca Minetto Napoleão , Fabio Petrillo , Sylvain Hallé

In recent years, Software has become an indispensable part of every segment from simple Office Automation to Space Technology and E-mail to E-commerce. The evolution in Software architecture is always an open issue for researchers to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-07-04 U. S. Poornima , V. Suma

Software fault prediction model are employed to optimize testing resource allocation by identifying fault-prone classes before testing phases. Several researchers' have validated the use of different classification techniques to develop…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Lov Kumar , Santanu Rath , Ashish Sureka

Testing plays an important role in securing the success of a software development project. Prior studies have demonstrated beneficial effects of applying acceptance testing within a Behavioural-Driven Development method. In this research,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Marina Filipovic , Fabian Gilson

The widespread adoption of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) means that the ongoing maintenance of many widely used software components relies on the collaborative effort of volunteers who set their own priorities and choose their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Kaylea Champion , Benjamin Mako Hill

Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade, with OSS projects now producing a large ecosystem of popular products, involving industry participation, and providing professional career opportunities. But our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Marco Gerosa , Igor Wiese , Bianca Trinkenreich , Georg Link , Gregorio Robles , Christoph Treude , Igor Steinmacher , Anita Sarma

The gender gap is a significant concern facing the software industry as the development becomes more geographically distributed. Widely shared reports indicate that gender differences may be specific to each region. However, how complete…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Gede Artha Azriadi Prana , Denae Ford , Ayushi Rastogi , David Lo , Rahul Purandare , Nachiappan Nagappan

Software quality-in-use comprehends the quality from user's perspectives. It has gained its importance in e-learning applications, mobile service based applications and project management tools. User's decisions on software acquisitions are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Issa Atoum , Chih How Bong , Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer

Open source software (OSS) vulnerabilities threaten the security of software systems that use OSS. Vulnerability databases provide valuable information (e.g., vulnerable version and patch) to mitigate OSS vulnerabilities. There arises a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Congying Xu , Bihuan Chen , Chenhao Lu , Kaifeng Huang , Xin Peng , Yang Liu

Open-source projects are essential to software development, but publicly disclosing vulnerabilities without fixes increases the risk of exploitation. The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) addresses this issue by promoting robust…

It is well known that the software process impacts the quality of the resulting product. There are also anecdotal claims that agile processes result in higher level of quality than traditional methodologies. However, still solid evidence of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Mohamad Kassab , JooYoung Lee , Manuel Mazzara , Giancarlo Succi , Rasul Tumyrkin

Obviously, the dynamism of software reliability research has speeded up significantly in the last period, and we can state the fact that its intensity is approaching, and in some cases is ahead of the information systems hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Anton Petrov , Elena Popova , Alexander Petrov