Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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The Comment Density of Open Source Software Code [ICSE NIER 2009]
Author: Oliver Arafat, Dirk Riehle Abstract: The development processes of open source software are different from traditional closed source development processes. Still, open source software is frequently of high quality. Thus, we are investigating how open source software creates high quality and whether it can maintain this quality for ever larger project sizes. In this…
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My Position on Privacy (Seven Things About Me)
Stormy Peters recently tagged me to post seven items about my life. This is a “viral” pyramid scheme; you are supposed to write these seven items and then tag seven other people to do the same. It is not the first time I got such a request; I also got tagged on Facebook to post…
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There is no “Donating Code to the Community”
There, he said it again, at the Open Source Meets Business conference in Nuremberg, Germany: “We would like to donate this code to the community.” Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, I’m not so sure. Or, to be frank, I think if somebody talks about donating code to the community they probably don’t understand effective open…
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Call for Papers: Fourth Workshop on Wikis for Software Engineering
For your information, the fourth workshop on wikis for (in) software engineering. I’m on the program committee. CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth Workshop on “Wikis for Software Engineering”, May 16, 2009, at ICSE 2009, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009 Submissions are due on January 26 (abstracts), February 2 (papers), 2009
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Six Easy Pieces of Quantitatively Analyzing Open Source Projects
I’ll be giving a talk at the Open Source Business Conference 2009 in San Francisco on March 24, 2009. The talk will present an easily accessible summary of our data-driven analytical work on how open source software development works. Here is the abstract: For the first time in the history of software engineering, we can…
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Organizational Design and Engineering
Most readers of this blog are probably familiar with Conway’s Law. So named by Fred Brooks in the “Mythical Man-Month” and popularized by the saying “if you have four teams working on a compiler you will get a four-pass compiler.” This sociological observation stipulates that the social architecture of a corporation i.e. its organizational hierarchy…