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Context: Continuous practices, i.e., continuous integration, delivery, and deployment, are the software development industry practices that enable organizations to frequently and reliably release new features and products. With the…

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Security Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are crucial for ensuring software security. However, their misuse introduces vulnerabilities, potentially leading to severe data breaches and substantial financial loss. Complex API design,…

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Infrastructure as code (IaC) scripts are used to automate the maintenance and configuration of software development and deployment infrastructure. IaC scripts can be complex in nature, containing hundreds of lines of code, leading to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Akond Rahman , Sarah Elder , Faysal Hossain Shezan , Vanessa Frost , Jonathan Stallings , Laurie Williams

Large language models (LLMs) trained on code completion have been shown to be capable of synthesizing simple Python programs from docstrings [1]. We find that these code-writing LLMs can be re-purposed to write robot policy code, given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jacky Liang , Wenlong Huang , Fei Xia , Peng Xu , Karol Hausman , Brian Ichter , Pete Florence , Andy Zeng

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools have transformed the way IT infrastructure is automated and managed, but their growing adoption has also exposed numerous challenges for practitioners. In this paper, we investigate these challenges…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Carolina Carreira , Nuno Saavedra , Alexandra Mendes , João F. Ferreira

Public and nonprofit organizations often hesitate to adopt AI tools because most models are opaque even though standard approaches typically analyze aggregate patterns rather than offering actionable, case-level guidance. This study tests a…

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IoT application providers increasingly use MicroService Architecture (MSA) to develop applications that convert IoT data into valuable information. The independently deployable and scalable nature of microservices enables dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Samodha Pallewatta , Muhammad Ali Babar

Given programming languages can provide different types and levels of security support, it is critically important to consider security aspects while selecting programming languages for developing software systems. Inadequate consideration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Roland Croft , Yongzheng Xie , Mansooreh Zahedi , M. Ali Babar , Christoph Treude

In the early 1980s, Open Source Software emerged as a revolutionary concept amidst the dominance of proprietary software. What began as a revolutionary idea has now become the cornerstone of computer science. Amidst OSS projects, AI is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Matteo Esposito , Andrea Janes , Valentina Lenarduzzi , Davide Taibi

Software designers and developers are increasingly relying on application frameworks as first-class design concepts. They instantiate the services that frameworks provide to implement various architectural tactics and patterns. One of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ali Shokri , Joanna C. S. Santos , Mehdi Mirakhorli

In open-source projects, anyone can contribute, so it is important to have an active continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline in addition to a protocol for reporting security concerns, especially in projects that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jessy Ayala , Joshua Garcia

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

Following code style conventions in software projects is essential for maintaining overall code quality. Adhering to these conventions improves maintainability, understandability, and extensibility. Additionally, following best practices…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Alvari Kupari , Nasser Giacaman , Valerio Terragni

This paper proposes an open source visual analytics tool consisting of several views and perspectives on eye movement data collected during code reading tasks when writing computer programs. Hence the focus of this work is on code and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ayush Kumar , Ashish Kumar , Aakanksha Prasad , Michael Burch , Shenghui Cheng , Klaus Mueller

Context: While there are many success stories of achieving high reuse and improved quality using software platforms, there is a need to investigate the issues and challenges organizations face when transitioning to a software platform…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Yaser Ghanam , Frank Maurer , Pekka Abrahamsson

[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

As open source software (OSS) becomes increasingly mature and popular, there are significant challenges with properly accounting for usability concerns for the diverse end users. Participatory design, where multiple stakeholders collaborate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Jazlyn Hellman , Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

Research software is essential to modern science, yet many research-performing organisations lack coherent policies to support its development, sustainability, and recognition. Despite its central role in research outcomes, research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Michelle Barker , Jeremy Cohen , Pedro Hernández Serrano , Daniel S. Katz , Kim Martin , Dan Rudmann , Hugh Shanahan

The Open Source Software movement has been growing exponentially for a number of years with no signs of slowing. Driving this growth is the widespread availability of libraries and frameworks that provide many functionalities. Developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Stan Zajdel , Diego Elias Costa , Hafedh Mili

New generations of distributed systems are opening novel perspectives for logic programming (LP): on the one hand, service-oriented architectures represent nowadays the standard approach for distributed systems engineering; on the other…

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