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Open source development, to a great extent, is a type of social movement in which shared ideologies play critical roles. For participants of open source development, ideology determines how they make sense of things, shapes their thoughts,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yang Yue , Xiaoran Yu , Xinyi You , Yi Wang , David Redmiles

This article describes the motivation, design, and progress of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a free and open-access journal that publishes articles describing research software. It has the dual goals of improving the…

Software systems often leverage on open source software libraries to reuse functionalities. Such libraries are readily available through software package managers like npm for JavaScript. Due to the huge amount of packages available in such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Ahmed Zerouali , Tom Mens , Gregorio Robles , Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona

Developing software with the source code open to the public is prevalent; however, similar to its closed counter part, open-source has quality problems, which cause functional failures, such as program breakdowns, and non-functional, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jincheng He , Zhongheng He

End users positive response is essential for the success of any software. This is true for both commercial and Open Source Software (OSS). OSS is popular not only because of its availability, which is usually free but due to the user…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Arif Razza , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Shuib Basri

Open source and commercial applications used to be two separate worlds. The former was the work of amateurs who had little interest in making a profit, while the latter was only profit oriented and was produced by big companies. Nowadays…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-24 Ioan Despi , Lucian Luca

Research software is increasingly recognized as a vital component of the scholarly record. Journals offer authors the opportunity to publish research software papers, but often have different requirements for how these publications should…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Nic Weber

With the advent of open source software, a veritable treasure trove of previously proprietary software development data was made available. This opened the field of empirical software engineering research to anyone in academia. Data that is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Adam Tutko , Austin Z. Henley , Audris Mockus

This research analyzes complex networks in open-source software at the inter-package level, where package dependencies often span across projects and between development groups. We review complex networks identified at ``lower'' levels of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nathan LaBelle , Eugene Wallingford

Modern software development methodologies include reuse of open source code. Reuse can be facilitated by architectural knowledge of the software, not necessarily provided in the documentation of open source software. The effort required to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Eleni Constantinou , George Kakarontzas , Ioannis Stamelos

In recent years Open Innovation (OI) has gained much attention and made firms aware that they need to consider the open environment surrounding them. To facilitate this shift Requirements Engineering (RE) needs to be adapted in order to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Johan Linåker , Björn Regnell , Hussan Munir

Open source projects have made incredible progress in producing transparent and widely usable machine learning models and systems, but open source alone will face challenges in fully democratizing access to AI. Unlike software, AI models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Joshua Tan , Nicholas Vincent , Katherine Elkins , Magnus Sahlgren

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

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

A simulation model based on parallel systems is established, aiming to explore the relation between the number of submissions and the overall standard of academic journals within a similar discipline under peer review. The model can…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zong-Yuan Tan , Ning Cai , Jian Zhou , Sheng-Guo Zhang

This document explores the advantages of integrating open source software and practices in managing a scientific lab, emphasizing reproducibility and the avoidance of pitfalls. It details practical applications from website management using…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Julien Cohen-Adad

We present a longitudinal study on the long-term evolution of maintainability in open-source software. Quality assessment remains at the forefront of both software research and practice, with many models and assessment methodologies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Arthur-Jozsef Molnar , Simona Motogna

Research software has been categorized in different contexts to serve different goals. We start with a look at what research software is, before we discuss the purpose of research software categories. We propose a multi-dimensional…

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