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Most engineers use measurements to make decisions. However, measurements are rarely used for decisions about constructing software products. While many approaches to measuring attributes of software (``metrics'') have been developed, they…

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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…

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Novelty evaluation is vital for the promotion and management of innovation. With the advancement of information techniques and the open data movement, some progress has been made in novelty measurements. Tracking and reviewing novelty…

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This work proposes a methodology for source code quality and static behaviour evaluation of a software system, based on the standard ISO/IEC-9126. It uses elements automatically derived from source code enhanced with expert knowledge in the…

[Context] Open Source Software (OSS) is nowadays used and integrated in most of the commercial products. However, the selection of OSS projects for integration is not a simple process, mainly due to a of lack of clear selection models and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Xiaozhou Li , Sergio Moreschini , Zheying Zhang , Davide Taibi

Open source software projects evolve thanks to a group of volunteers that help in their development. Thus, the success of these projects depends on their ability to attract (and keep) developers. We believe the openness of a project, i.e.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Valerio Cosentino , Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo , Jordi Cabot

This paper proposes some new architectural metrics which are appropriate for evaluating the architectural attributes of a software system. The main feature of our approach is to assess the complexity of a software architecture by analyzing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jianjun Zhao

Product innovation is a risky activity, but when successful, it enables large software companies accrue high profits and leapfrog the competition. Internal startups have been promoted as one way to foster product innovation in large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Henry Edison , Xiaofeng Wang , Pekka Abrahamsson

Context: Software startups are newly created companies with no operating history and fast in producing cutting-edge technologies. These companies develop software under highly uncertain conditions, tackling fast-growing markets under severe…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Nicolò Paternoster , Carmine Giardino , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek , Pekka Abrahamsson

Context: Research software is essential for developing advanced tools and models to solve complex research problems and drive innovation across domains. Therefore, it is essential to ensure its correctness. Software testing plays a vital…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Nasir U. Eisty , Upulee Kanewala , Jeffrey C. Carver

Research software has been categorized for various goals. One fundamental dimension of such categorizations is the role that the software plays in the research process. Recently, a new role category has emerged: technology research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wilhelm Hasselbring , Daniel S. Katz , Rob van Nieuwpoort

Software has gained immense importance in our everyday lifeand is handling each and every aspect of today's technologicalworld. The idea of software at initial phase was implemented bya very precise minority of individual and now it's…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Umer Farooq , M. Aqeel Iqbal , Usman Shabbir , Sohail Nazir

Encompassing a diverse population of developers, non-technical users, and other stakeholders, open source software (OSS) development has expanded to broader social movements from the initial product development aims. Ideology, as a coherent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yang Yue , Yi Wang , David Redmiles

Fault-proneness is a measure that indicates the possibility of programming errors occurring within a software system. On the other hand, change-proneness refers to the potential for modifications to be made to the software. Both of these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Md. Masudur Rahman , Toukir Ahammed , Kazi Sakib

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

Although agile software development methods have caught the attention of software engineers and researchers worldwide, scientific research still remains quite scarce. The aim of this study is to order and make sense of the different agile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Pekka Abrahamsson , Nilay Oza , Mikko T. Siponen

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

Analysing and improving productivity has been one of the main goals of software engineering research since its beginnings. A plethora of studies has been conducted on various factors that resulted in several models for analysis and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Stefan Wagner , Melanie Ruhe

Context: Over the last decades, open-source software has pervaded the software industry and has become one of the key pillars in software engineering. The incomparable growth of open source reflected that pervasion: Prior work described…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Michael Dorner , Maximilian Capraro , Ann Barcomb , Krzysztof Wnuk

Systematic application of software metric techniques can lead to significant improvements of the quality of a final software product. However, there is still the evident lack of wider utilization of software metrics techniques and tools due…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Gordana Rakic , Zoran Budimac