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With the increasing adoption of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines, securing software supply chains has become a critical challenge for modern DevOps teams. This study addresses these challenges by applying a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sowmiya Dhandapani

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

Package managers have become a vital part of the modern software development process. They allow developers to reuse third-party code, share their own code, minimize their codebase, and simplify the build process. However, recent reports…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ruian Duan , Omar Alrawi , Ranjita Pai Kasturi , Ryan Elder , Brendan Saltaformaggio , Wenke Lee

The proliferation of open source software (OSS) and different types of reuse has made it incredibly difficult to perform an essential legal and compliance task of accurate license identification within the software supply chain. This study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mahmoud Jahanshahi , David Reid , Adam McDaniel , Audris Mockus

One of the primary factors that encourage developers to contribute to open source software (OSS) projects is the collaborative nature of OSS development. However, the collaborative structure of these communities largely remains unclear,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Alexander Agroskin , Elena Lyulina , Sergey Titov , Vladimir Kovalenko

Different security issues are a common problem for open source packages archived to and delivered through software ecosystems. These often manifest themselves as software weaknesses that may lead to concrete software vulnerabilities. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jukka Ruohonen , Kalle Hjerppe , Kalle Rindell

In many academic disciplines, software is created during the research process or for a research purpose. The crucial role of software for research is increasingly acknowledged. The application of software engineering to research software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Stephan Druskat , Lars Grunske

Trojanized software packages used in software supply chain attacks constitute an emerging threat. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of scalable approaches that allow automated and timely detection of malicious software packages and thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Marc Ohm , Lukas Kempf , Felix Boes , Michael Meier

Maliciously prepared software packages are an extensively leveraged weapon for software supply chain attacks. The detection of malicious packages is undoubtedly of high priority and many academic and commercial approaches have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Marc Ohm , Timo Pohl , Felix Boes

Modern software development frequently uses third-party packages, raising the concern of supply chain security attacks. Many attackers target popular package managers, like npm, and their users with supply chain attacks. In 2021 there was a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Nusrat Zahan , Thomas Zimmermann , Patrice Godefroid , Brendan Murphy , Chandra Maddila , Laurie Williams

The sources of reliable, code-level information about vulnerabilities that affect open-source software (OSS) are scarce, which hinders a broad adoption of advanced tools that provide code-level detection and assessment of vulnerable OSS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Therese Fehrer , Rocío Cabrera Lozoya , Antonino Sabetta , Dario Di Nucci , Damian A. Tamburri

This paper presents a comprehensive benchmarking suite tailored to offline safe reinforcement learning (RL) challenges, aiming to foster progress in the development and evaluation of safe learning algorithms in both the training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Zuxin Liu , Zijian Guo , Haohong Lin , Yihang Yao , Jiacheng Zhu , Zhepeng Cen , Hanjiang Hu , Wenhao Yu , Tingnan Zhang , Jie Tan , Ding Zhao

Open-source software (OSS) supply chain enlarges the attack surface, which makes package registries attractive targets for attacks. Recently, package registries NPM and PyPI have been flooded with malicious packages. The effectiveness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Junan Zhang , Kaifeng Huang , Yiheng Huang , Bihuan Chen , Ruisi Wang , Chong Wang , Xin Peng

A novel approach to malware classification is introduced based on analysis of instruction traces that are collected dynamically from the program in question. The method has been implemented online in a sandbox environment (i.e., a security…

Applications · Statistics 2014-04-10 Curtis Storlie , Blake Anderson , Scott Vander Wiel , Daniel Quist , Curtis Hash , Nathan Brown

Open source software ecosystems consist of thousands of interdependent libraries, which users can combine to great effect. Recent work has pointed out two kinds of risks in these systems: that technical problems like bugs and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-11 William Schueller , Johannes Wachs

Bug tracking tools are vital for managing bugs in any open source as well as proprietary commercial projects. Considering the significance of using an appropriate bug tracking tool, we assess the features offered by 31 open source bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Sai Anirudh Karre , Anveshi Shukla , Y. Raghu Reddy

Software vulnerabilities remain a significant risk factor in achieving security objectives within software development organizations. This is especially true where either proprietary or open-source software (OSS) is included in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 James J. Cusick

Two key contributions presented in this paper are: i) A method for building a dataset containing source code features extracted from source files taken from Open Source Software (OSS) and associated bug reports, ii) A predictive model for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Ritu Kapur , Balwinder Sodhi

Software quality research increasingly relies on large-scale datasets that measure both the product and process aspects of software systems. However, existing resources often focus on limited dimensions, such as code smells, technical debt,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mikel Robredo , Matteo Esposito , Davide Taibi , Rafael Peñaloza , Valentina Lenarduzzi

The security of research software is essential for ensuring the integrity and reproducibility of scientific results. However, research software security is still largely unexplored. Due to its dependence on open source components and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Richard Hegewald , Rebecca Beyer