As open project repositories have become widespread, evaluating the quality of open
source software (OSS) has gained attention in the software community. Despite the variety in …

While state of the art of software refactoring research uses various quality attributes to
identify refactoring opportunities and evaluate refactoring recommendations, the impact of …

Organizations have to quickly leverage both internal and external capabilities to survive and
compete in the current world, using all possible resources to effectively solve their problems …

Open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software has become a preferred
alternative for modern organizations due to its affordable cost, availability and ease of …

Enterprises have to find their way to ensure systematic quality management in decentralized
agile environments. However, there is no standard approach for the evaluation and …

Software sustainability has generated much interest in the software engineering field in
recent times, and has been widely investigated across different fields and from different …

Microservice architecture (MSA) is a mainstream architectural style due to its high
maintainability and scalability. In practice, an appropriate microservice‐oriented …

The selection of the suitable blockchain software ecosystem has become very complex,
given the growing market. More and more products with different functionality (mainly …

The ever‐growing open‐source software tools in different domains increase the difficulty of
software selection from the end‐users perspective. The process of evaluating, comparing …

I would like to acknowledge my advisor, Dr. Clemente Izurieta, for the mentorship and
support throughout the entirety of this thesis. I would also like to acknowledge my committee …