Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal
contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain …

Context: GitHub, nowadays the most popular social coding platform, has become the
reference for mining Open Source repositories, a growing research trend aiming at learning …

Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade, with OSS
projects now producing a large ecosystem of popular products, involving industry …

Change introduces conflict into software ecosystems: breaking changes may ripple through
the ecosystem and trigger rework for users of a package, but often developers can invest …

Software developers use many different communication tools and channels in their work.
The diversity of these tools has dramatically increased over the past decade and developers …

In a large, long-lived project, an effective code review process is key to ensuring the long-
term quality of the code base. In this work, we study code review practices of a large, open …

Abstract Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) describes cloud computing services that make
infrastructure components transparent to application developers, thus falling in the larger …

A growing number of software solutions have been proposed to address application-level
energy consumption problems in the last few years. However, little is known about how …

IoT systems are rapidly adopted in various domains, from embedded systems to smart
homes. Despite their growing adoption and popularity, there has been no thorough study to …

Open source software projects often rely on package management systems that help
projects discover, incorporate, and maintain dependencies on other packages, maintained …