Security is critical to the adoption of open source software (OSS), yet few automated
solutions currently exist to help detect and prevent malicious contributions from infecting …

Background: There is a growing awareness of the importance of human values (eg,
inclusiveness, privacy) in software systems. However, there are no practical tools to support …

Software developers pursue a wide range of activities as part of their work, and making
sense of what they did in a given time frame is far from trivial as evidenced by the large …

There is a growing awareness of the importance of human values in software systems.
However, limited tools are available to support the integration of human values during …

Transparent environments and social‐coding platforms as GitHub help developers to stay
abreast of changes during the development and maintenance phase of a project. Especially …

Objective Drawing from a previously published research protocol, our study investigates
whether a correlation exists between the 'surprisal'of issues and their perceived importance …

Developers are using more and more different channels and tools to collaborate, and
integrations between these tools are becoming more prevalent. In turn, more data about …

In large and active software projects, it becomes impractical for a developer to stay aware of
all project activity. While it might not be necessary to know about each commit or issue, it is …

Background. From information theory, surprisal is a measurement of how unexpected an
event is. Statistical language models provide a probabilistic approximation of natural …

Continuous software engineering is increasingly ingrained and widely adopted in
development projects. These projects have extended their processes by utilizing software …