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This paper describes our experience of delivery educational programs in academia and in industry on DevOps, compare the two approaches and sum-up the lessons learnt. We also propose a vision to implement a shift in the Software Engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Evgeny Bobrov , Antonio Bucchiarone , Alfredo Capozucca , Nicolas Guelfi , Manuel Mazzara , Sergey Masyagin

Reproducibility is inseparable from transparency, as sharing data, code and computational environment is a pre-requisite for being able to retrace the steps of producing the research results. Others have made the case that this artifact…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Lorena A. Barba

Agile software development methods (ASD) and open source software development methods (OSSD) are two different approaches which were introduced in last decade and both of them have their fanatical advocators. Yet, it seems that relation and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Taghi Javdani Gandomani , Hazura Zulzalil , Abdul Azim Abdul Ghani , Abu Bakar Md Sultan

Software engineering and information systems practices seek ultimately to create the flawless product. One of the tools used to improve the quality of software development is the use of metrics. In this paper, metrics retrieved from open…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Mamdouh Alenezi , Ibrahim Abunadi

To help researchers conduct a systematic review or meta-analysis as efficiently and transparently as possible, we designed a tool (ASReview) to accelerate the step of screening titles and abstracts. For many tasks - including but not…

Background: Research software is crucial for enabling research discoveries and supporting data analysis, simulation, and interpretation across domains. However, evolving requirements, complex inputs, and legacy dependencies hinder the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Md Ariful Islam Malik , Jeffrey C. Carver , Nasir U. Eisty

So far, the relationship between open science and software engineering expertise has largely focused on the open release of software engineering research insights and reproducible artifacts, in the form of open-access papers, open data, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Cynthia C. S. Liem , Andrew M. Demetriou

In this chapter we first outline some of the popular computing environments used for analysing neural data, followed by a brief discussion of 'software carpentry', basic tools and skills from software engineering that can be of great use to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2012-07-26 Robin A. A. Ince

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

The advent of computers has allowed mathematicians to do increasingly more difficult computations that used to be practically impossible. Peer reviewers will seldom look at any code attached to a math paper, however. In this article, we…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Jeroen Hanselman

In application software, the satisfaction of target users makes the software more acceptable. Open Source Software (OSS) systems have neither the physical nor the commercial boundaries of proprietary software, thus users from all over the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Arif Raza , Luiz Fernando Capretz

One important goal in sustainability is making technologies available to the maximum possible number of individuals, and especially to those living in less developed areas (Goal 9 of SDG). However, the diffusion of technical knowledge is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Giorgio F. Signorini

According to different opponents and commercial giants in software industries, the open source style software development has enough capacity to complete successfully the large scale projects. But we have seen many flaws and loops in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Murtaza Hussain Shaikh

Easy and mostly free access to the internet has resulted in the growing use of open source software (OSS). However, it is a common perception that closed proprietary software is still superior in areas such as software maintenance and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Arif Raza , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

The main goal of this document is to help the research community to understand the basic concepts of software distribution: Free software, Open source software, licenses. This document also includes a procedure for research software and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-09-12 Teresa Gomez-Diaz

Open Science aims to foster openness and collaboration in research, leading to more significant scientific and social impact. However, practicing Open Science comes with several challenges and is currently not properly rewarded. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Edson OliveiraJr , Fernanda Madeiral , Alcemir Rodrigues Santos , Christina von Flach , Sergio Soares

Peer review is a key activity intended to preserve the quality and integrity of scientific publications. However, in practice it is far from perfect. We aim at understanding how reviewers, including those who have won awards for reviewing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Neil A. Ernst , Jeffrey C. Carver , Daniel Mendez , Marco Torchiano

Anonymous peer review is used by the great majority of computer science conferences. OpenReview is such a platform that aims to promote openness in peer review process. The paper, (meta) reviews, rebuttals, and final decisions are all…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Gang Wang , Qi Peng , Yanfeng Zhang , Mingyang Zhang

In computational science and in computer science, research software is a central asset for research. Computational science is the application of computer science and software engineering principles to solving scientific problems, whereas…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Wilhelm Hasselbring , Leslie Carr , Simon Hettrick , Heather Packer , Thanassis Tiropanis

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