Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Bringing open source best practices into corporations using a software forge
You may have noticed our work on improving corporate software development at SAP using an in-house software forge. The main benefit is in transferring open source best practices to our software development processes. At an upcoming industry conference presentation I’ll be talking about some of the lessons we learned. Here is the abstract of the…
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Call for papers: Onward! 2009
For your information, the call for papers for Onward! 2009. I’m on the program committee (and was last year’s chair). ONWARD! 2009 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The conference for new ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on everything to do with programming and software. Co-located with OOPSLA 2009 Orlando, Florida October 25-29 2009 http://www.onward-conference.org Sponsored by ACM…
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Open collaboration within corporations using software forges [Software Magazine]
Abstract: Over the past 10 years, open source software has become an important cornerstone of the software industry. Commercial users have adopted it in standalone applications, and software vendors are embedding it in products. Surprisingly then, from a commercial perspective, open source software is developed differently from how corporations typically develop software. Research into how…
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Estimating commit sizes efficiently [OSS 2009]
Authors: Philipp Hofmann, Dirk Riehle Abstract: The quantitative analysis of software projects can provide insights that let us better understand open source and other software development projects. An important variable used in the analysis of software projects is the amount of work being contributed, the commit size. Unfortunately, post-facto, the commit size can only be…
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The sweet spot of code commenting in open source
In a large-scale study of active working open source projects we have found an average comment density of about 20% (= one comment line in five code lines). Given that much of open source remains volunteer work, we believe that a comment density of 20% represents the sweet spot of code commenting in open source…
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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…