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09/08/2023
Lessons from the Long Tail: Analysing Unsafe Dependency Updates across Software Ecosystems
A risk in adopting third-party dependencies into an application is their...
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08/19/2023
Repeated Builds During Code Review: An Empirical Study of the OpenStack Community
Code review is a popular practice where developers critique each others'...
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07/14/2023
When Conversations Turn Into Work: A Taxonomy of Converted Discussions and Issues in GitHub
Popular and large contemporary open-source projects now embrace a divers...
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07/14/2023
More Than React: Investigating The Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests
Open source software development has become more social and collaborativ...
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05/29/2023
Promises and Perils of Mining Software Package Ecosystem Data
The use of third-party packages is becoming increasingly popular and has...
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05/28/2023
The Life and Death of Software Ecosystems
Software ecosystems have gained a lot of attention in recent times. Indu...
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05/27/2023
Ethical Considerations Towards Protestware
A key drawback to using a Open Source third-party library is the risk of...
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05/26/2023
18 Million Links in Commit Messages: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay
Commit messages contain diverse and valuable types of knowledge in all a...
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05/05/2023
Meta-Maintanance for Dockerfiles: Are We There Yet?
Docker allows for the packaging of applications and dependencies, and it...
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04/12/2023
We Live in a Society: Motivators for Contributions in an OSS Ecosystem
Due to the increasing number of attacks targeting open source library ec...
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03/28/2023
Understanding the Role of Images on Stack Overflow
Images are increasingly being shared by software developers in diverse c...
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03/16/2023
Intertwining Communities: Exploring Libraries that Cross Software Ecosystems
Using libraries in applications has helped developers reduce the costs o...
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12/04/2022
Visualizing Contributor Code Competency for PyPI Libraries: Preliminary Results
Python is known to be used by beginners to professional programmers. Pyt...
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11/28/2022
An Exploration of Cross-Patch Collaborations via Patch Linkage in OpenStack
Contemporary development projects benefit from code review as it improve...
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11/21/2022
An Empirical Study of Package Management Issues via Stack Overflow
The package manager (PM) is crucial to most technology stacks, acting as...
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08/18/2022
An Empirical Evaluation of Competitive Programming AI: A Case Study of AlphaCode
AlphaCode is a code generation system for assisting software developers ...
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08/13/2022
Intertwining Ecosystems: A Large Scale Empirical Study of Libraries that Cross Software Ecosystems
An increase in diverse technology stacks and third-party library usage h...
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08/05/2022
Bug-Fix Variants: Visualizing Unique Source Code Changes across GitHub Forks
Forking is a common practice for developers when building upon on alread...
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08/01/2022
In War and Peace: The Impact of World Politics on Software Ecosystems
Reliance on third-party libraries is now commonplace in contemporary sof...
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07/08/2022
Understanding the Role of External Pull Requests in the NPM Ecosystem
The risk to using third-party libraries in a software application is tha...
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05/26/2022
Giving Back: Contributions Congruent to Library Dependency Changes in a Software Ecosystem
Popular adoption of third-party libraries for contemporary software deve...
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05/17/2022
On the Use of Refactoring in Security Vulnerability Fixes: An Exploratory Study on Maven Libraries
Third-party library dependencies are commonplace in today's software dev...
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03/30/2022
pycefr: Python Competency Level through Code Analysis
Python is known to be a versatile language, well suited both for beginne...
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03/28/2022
Does Coding in Pythonic Zen Peak Performance? Preliminary Experiments of Nine Pythonic Idioms at Scale
In the field of data science, and for academics in general, the Python p...
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09/18/2021
SōjiTantei: Function-Call Reachability Detection of Vulnerable Code for npm Packages
It has become common practice for software projects to adopt third-party...
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09/18/2021
An Exploration of npm Package Co-Usage Examples from Stack Overflow: A Case Study
Third-party package usage has become a common practice in contemporary s...
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08/18/2021
More Than React: Investigating The Role of EmojiReaction in GitHub Pull Requests
Context: Open source software development has become more social and col...
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08/13/2021
Contrasting Third-Party Package Management User Experience
The management of third-party package dependencies is crucial to most te...
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06/04/2021
Automatic Patch Linkage Detection in Code Review Using TextualContent and File Location Features
Context: Contemporary code review tools are a popular choice for softwar...
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04/13/2021
Science-Software Linkage: The Challenges of Traceability between Scientific Knowledge and Software Artifacts
Although computer science papers are often accompanied by software artif...
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04/07/2021
Does the First-Response Matter for Future Contributions? A Study of First Contributions
Context: Open Source Software (OSS) projects rely on a continuous stream...
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03/15/2021
Does Code Review Promote Conformance? A Study of OpenStack Patches
Code Review plays a crucial role in software quality, by allowing review...
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02/19/2021
Characterizing and Mitigating Self-Admitted Build Debt
Technical Debt is a metaphor used to describe the situation in which lon...
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02/12/2021
Same File, Different Changes: The Potential of Meta-Maintenance on GitHub
Online collaboration platforms such as GitHub have provided software dev...
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02/10/2021
GitHub Discussions: An Exploratory Study of Early Adoption
Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussin...
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02/02/2021
FLOSS != GitHub: A Case Study of Linux/BSD Perceptions from Microsoft's Acquisition of GitHub
In 2018, the software industry giants Microsoft made a move into the Ope...
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09/19/2020
Sustaining a Healthy Ecosystem: Participation, Discussion, and Interaction in Eclipse Forums
Although many software development projects have moved their developer d...
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09/05/2020
Teddy: Automatic Recommendation of Pythonic Idiom Usage For Pull-Based Software Projects
Pythonic code is idiomatic code that follows guiding principles and prac...
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08/11/2020
Code-based Vulnerability Detection in Node.js Applications: How far are we?
With one of the largest available collection of reusable packages, the J...
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08/06/2020
Newcomer Candidate: Characterizing Contributions of a Novice Developer to GitHub
Context: To attract, onboard, and retain any new-comer in Open Source So...
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04/01/2020
GitHub Repositories with Links to Academic Papers: Open Access, Traceability, and Evolution
Traceability between published scientific breakthroughs and their implem...
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11/20/2019
The Evolution of Code Review Research: A Systematic Mapping Study
Code Review (CR) is a cornerstone for Quality Assurance within software ...
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10/31/2019
Untapped potential for software engineering in an emerging society: The case of Papua New Guinea
Technological advancement is a main driver for societal change. The Papu...
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07/08/2019
On The Lag of Library Vulnerability Updates: An Investigation into the Repackage and Delivery of Security Fixes Within The npm JavaScript Ecosystem
Vulnerabilities in third-party libraries is a growing concern for the so...
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05/09/2019
A Topological Analysis of Communication Channels for Knowledge Sharing in Contemporary GitHub Projects
With over 28 million developers, success of GitHub collaborative platfor...
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01/22/2019
9.6 Million Links in Source Code Comments: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay
Links are an essential feature of the World Wide Web, and source code re...
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05/10/2018
Human Capital in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping of Reconceptualized Human Aspect Studies
The human capital invested into software development plays a vital role ...
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02/23/2018
An Empirical Study on README contents for JavaScript Packages
Contemporary software projects often utilize a README.md to share crucia...
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10/02/2017
Extracting Insights from the Topology of the JavaScript Package Ecosystem
Software ecosystems have had a tremendous impact on computing and societ...
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09/29/2017