Curating github for engineered software projects

N Munaiah, S Kroh, C Cabrey, M Nagappan - Empirical Software …, 2017 - Springer
Software forges like GitHub host millions of repositories. Software engineering researchers
have been able to take advantage of such a large corpora of potential study subjects with …

Understanding the factors that impact the popularity of GitHub repositories

H Borges, A Hora, MT Valente - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software popularity is a valuable information to modern open source developers, who
constantly want to know if their systems are attracting new users, if new releases are gaining …

Vulnerable open source dependencies: Counting those that matter

I Pashchenko, H Plate, SE Ponta, A Sabetta… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Background: Vulnerable dependencies are a known problem in today's open-source
software ecosystems because OSS libraries are highly interconnected and developers do …

Vuln4real: A methodology for counting actually vulnerable dependencies

I Pashchenko, H Plate, SE Ponta… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vulnerable dependencies are a known problem in today's free open-source software
ecosystems because FOSS libraries are highly interconnected, and developers do not …

On the diversity of software package popularity metrics: An empirical study of npm

A Zerouali, T Mens, G Robles… - 2019 IEEE 26th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software systems often leverage on open source software libraries to reuse functionalities.
Such libraries are readily available through software package managers like npm for …

Identifying challenges for oss vulnerability scanners-a study & test suite

A Dann, H Plate, B Hermann, SE Ponta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of vulnerable open-source dependencies is a known problem in today's software
development. Several vulnerability scanners to detect known-vulnerable dependencies …

PHANTOM: Curating GitHub for engineered software projects using time-series clustering

P Pickerill, HJ Jungen, M Ochodek… - Empirical Software …, 2020 - Springer
Context Within the field of Mining Software Repositories, there are numerous methods
employed to filter datasets in order to avoid analysing low-quality projects. Unfortunately, the …

Impact of historical software metric changes in predicting future maintainability trends in open-source software development

M Gradišnik, T Beranič, S Karakatič - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Featured Application The paper shows that the additional layers of historical changes of
software metrics from previous software releases contributes to a better prediction of future …

Niche: A curated dataset of engineered machine learning projects in python

R Widyasari, Z Yang, F Thung, SQ Sim… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 20th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning (ML) has gained much attention and has been incorporated into our daily
lives. While there are numerous publicly available ML projects on open source platforms …

On the security cost of using a free and open source component in a proprietary product

S Dashevskyi, AD Brucker, F Massacci - … ESSoS 2016, London, UK, April 6 …, 2016 - Springer
The work presented in this paper is motivated by the need to estimate the security effort of
consuming Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) components within a proprietary …