Code Reuse in Open Source Software Development

Code Reuse in Open Source Software Development
Author: Manuel Sojer
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
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The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how and why individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code - that is, on the “giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on the corresponding “receiving” side of the innovation process is scarce. We address this gap, studying how existing OSS code is reused and serves as an input to further OSS development. Our findings are based on a survey with 686 responses from OSS developers. As the most interesting results, our multivariate analyses of developers' code reuse behavior point out that developers with larger personal networks within the OSS community and those who have experience in a greater number of OSS projects reuse more, presumably because both network size and a broad project experience facilitate local search for reusable artifacts. Moreover, we find that a development paradigm that calls for releasing an initial functioning version of the software early - as the “credible promise” in OSS - leads to increased reuse. Finally, we identify developers' interest to tackle difficult technical challenges as detrimental to efficient reuse-based innovation. Beyond OSS, we discuss the relevance of our findings for companies developing software and for the receiving side of open innovation processes in general.

Reusing Open Source Code

Reusing Open Source Code
Author: Manuel Sojer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2010-11-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3834963909
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The reuse of existing code through their software developers is critical for firms to ensure efficient development of high-quality software. Manuel Sojer empirically investigates which factors influence software developers to reuse open source code and what causes them to comply with the resulting license obligations or not.

Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse

Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse
Author: Susan Elliott Sim
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461465966
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In recent years, searching for source code on the web has become increasingly common among professional software developers and is emerging as an area of academic research. This volume surveys past research and presents the state of the art in the area of "code retrieval on the web." This work is concerned with the algorithms, systems, and tools to allow programmers to search for source code on the web and the empirical studies of these inventions and practices. It is a label that we apply to a set of related research from software engineering, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, management, as well as commercial products. The division of code retrieval on the web into snippet remixing and component reuse is driven both by empirical data, and analysis of existing search engines and tools. Contributors include leading researchers from human-computer interaction, software engineering, programming languages, and management. "Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse" consists of five parts. Part I is titled "Programmers and Practices," and consists of a retrospective chapter and two empirical studies on how programmers search the web for source code. Part II is titled "From Data Structures to Infrastructures," and covers the creation of ground-breaking search engines for code retrieval required ingenuity in the adaptation of existing technology and in the creation of new algorithms and data structures. Part III focuses on "Reuse: Components and Projects," which are reused with minimal modification. Part IV is on "Remix: Snippets and Answers," which examines how source code from the web can also be used as solutions to problems and answers to questions. The book concludes with Part V, "Looking Ahead," that looks at future programming and the legalities of software reuse and remix and the implications of current intellectual property law on the future of software development. The story, "Richie Boss: Private Investigator Manager," was selected as the winner of a crowdfunded short story contest."

Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse

Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse
Author: Themistoklis Diamantopoulos
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2020-03-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030301060
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This monograph discusses software reuse and how it can be applied at different stages of the software development process, on different types of data and at different levels of granularity. Several challenging hypotheses are analyzed and confronted using novel data-driven methodologies, in order to solve problems in requirements elicitation and specification extraction, software design and implementation, as well as software quality assurance. The book is accompanied by a number of tools, libraries and working prototypes in order to practically illustrate how the phases of the software engineering life cycle can benefit from unlocking the potential of data. Software engineering researchers, experts, and practitioners can benefit from the various methodologies presented and can better understand how knowledge extracted from software data residing in various repositories can be combined and used to enable effective decision making and save considerable time and effort through software reuse. Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse can also prove handy for graduate-level students in software engineering.

Software Engineering with Reusable Components

Software Engineering with Reusable Components
Author: Johannes Sametinger
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3662033453
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The book provides a clear understanding of what software reuse is, where the problems are, what benefits to expect, the activities, and its different forms. The reader is also given an overview of what sofware components are, different kinds of components and compositions, a taxonomy thereof, and examples of successful component reuse. An introduction to software engineering and software process models is also provided.

Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools

Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools
Author: Cristina Gacek
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2003-08-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540460209
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As a result of the open-source movement there is now a great deal of reusable software available in the public domain. This offers significant functionality that commercial software vendors can use in their software projects. Open-source approaches to software development have illustrated that complex, mission critical software can be developed by distributed teams of developers sharing a common goal. Commercial software vendors have an opportunity to both learn from the op- source community as well as leverage that knowledge for the benefit of its commercial clients. Nonetheless, the open-source movement is a diverse collection of ideas, knowledge, techniques, and solutions. As a result, it is far from clear how these approaches should be applied to commercial software engineering. This paper has looked at many of the dimensions of the open-source movement, and provided an analysis of the different opportunities available to commercial software vendors. References and Notes 1. It can be argued that the open-source community has produced really only two essential 9 products -- Apache (undeniably the most popular web server) and Linux although both are essentially reincarnations of prior systems. Both are also somewhat products of their times: Apache filled a hole in the then emerging Web, at a time no platform vendor really knew how to step in, and Linux filled a hole in the fragmented Unix market, colored by the community s general anger against Microsoft. 2.Evans Marketing Services, Linux Developers Survey, Volume 1, March 2000.

Open Source Software Dynamics, Processes, and Applications

Open Source Software Dynamics, Processes, and Applications
Author: Koch, Stefan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 146662938X
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The innovative process of open source software is led in greater part by the end-users; therefore this aspect of open source software remains significant beyond the realm of traditional software development. Open Source Software Dynamics, Processes, and Applications is a multidisciplinary collection of research and approaches on the applications and processes of open source software. Highlighting the development processes performed by software programmers, the motivations of its participants, and the legal and economic issues that have been raised; this book is essential for scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of software engineering and management as well as sociology.

The First OpenForum Academy Conference Proceedings

The First OpenForum Academy Conference Proceedings
Author: Shane Coughlan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2012-09-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1300177187
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The First OpenForum Academy Conference Proceedings collects essays by our Fellows about different aspects of openness and open innovation. It reflects our on-going mission to explore, advance and codify this important field.

Software Reuse: Bridging with Social-Awareness

Software Reuse: Bridging with Social-Awareness
Author: Georgia M. Kapitsaki
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319351222
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2016, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in June 2016. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 4 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers cover different areas of software engineering, where software reuse plays an important role, such as software product lines, domain analysis and modeling, software tools and business aspects of software. ICSR 2016 has provided a complete view on the advancements in the area of software reuse in the last years for interested researchers and practitioners.

Source Code Modularization

Source Code Modularization
Author: Ayaz Isazadeh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319633465
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This book presents source code modularization as a key activity in reverse engineering to extract the software architecture from the existing source code. To this end, it provides detailed techniques for source code modularization and discusses their effects on different software quality attributes. Nonetheless, it is not a mere survey of source code modularization algorithms, but rather a consistent and unifying theoretical modularization framework, and as such is the first publication that comprehensively examines the models and techniques for source code modularization. It enables readers to gain a thorough understanding of topics like software artifacts proximity, hierarchical and partitional modularization algorithms, search- and algebraic-based software modularization, software modularization evaluation techniques and software quality attributes and modularization. This book introduces students and software professionals to the fundamental ideas of source code modularization concepts, similarity/dissimilarity metrics, modularization metrics, and quality assurance. Further, it allows undergraduate and graduate students in software engineering, computer science, and computer engineering with no prior experience in the software industry to explore the subject in a step-by-step manner. Practitioners benefit from the structured presentation and comprehensive nature of the materials, while the large number of bibliographic references makes this book a valuable resource for researchers working on source code modularization.