An Empirical Study on the Reuse of Third-Party Libraries in Open-Source Software Development

Zaimi, Asimina; Ampatzoglou, Apostolos; Triantafyllidou, Noni; Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander; Mavridis, Apostolos; Chaikalis, Theodore; Deligiannis, Ignatios; Sfetsos, Panagiotis; Stamelos, Ioannis

doi:10.1145/2801081.2801087

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“…The library is written in Eiffel for readability, but the method scales to other object-oriented languages with support for genericity. 4. https://tinyurl.com/ybd4b5un…”

Section: Library Of Templatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Object-Oriented Requirements: Reusable, Understandable, Verifiable

Naumchev

2019

Software Technology: Methods and Tools

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Insufficient requirements reusability, understandability and verifiability jeopardize software projects. Empirical studies show little success in improving these qualities separately. Applying objectoriented thinking to requirements leads to their unified treatment. An online library of reusable requirement templates implements recurring requirement structures, offering a starting point for practicing the unified approach.

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“…The library is written in Eiffel for readability, but the method scales to other object-oriented languages with support for genericity. 4. https://tinyurl.com/ybd4b5un…”

Section: Library Of Templatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Object-Oriented Requirements: Reusable, Understandable, Verifiable

Naumchev

2019

Software Technology: Methods and Tools

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“…The process that developers follow to select a software library is often ad-hoc, and we have no clear evidence that these decisions are quality-driven [29]. Indeed, different software practitioners might consider different criteria when choosing a library, e.g., how much they trust it [12], and how popular the library is in its ecosystem [16][17][18]28].…”

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confidence: 99%

Selecting third-party libraries: the practitioners’ perspective

Larios-Vargas¹,

Aniche

Treude

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Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Softw

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“…The plethora of open source projects offers great reuse opportunities for developers to build tools at lower cost and at a faster pace. Therefore, software reuse, also called code reuse, has become an essential topic in software development [2][3][4]. This is especially true in the clinical domain, where the lack of a well-trained IT workforce and an uneven geographic distribution of clinical informaticians between developed and developing countries restrain the development of clinical IT [5,6].…”

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A Systematic Review of Open Source Clinical Software on GitHub for Improving Software Reuse in Smart Healthcare

Shen

Spruit

2019

Applied Sciences

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The plethora of open source clinical software offers great reuse opportunities for developers to build clinical tools at lower cost and at a faster pace. However, the lack of research on open source clinical software poses a challenge for software reuse in clinical software development. This paper aims to help clinical developers better understand open source clinical software by conducting a thorough investigation of open source clinical software hosted on GitHub. We first developed a data pipeline that automatically collected and preprocessed GitHub data. Then, a deep analysis with several methods, such as statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and topic modeling, was conducted to reveal the overall status and various characteristics of open source clinical software. There were 14,971 clinical-related GitHub repositories created during the last 10 years, with an average annual growth rate of 55%. Among them, 12,919 are open source clinical software. Our analysis unveiled a number of interesting findings: Popular open source clinical software in terms of the number of stars, most productive countries that contribute to the community, important factors that make an open source clinical software popular, and 10 main groups of open source clinical software. The results can assist both researchers and practitioners, especially newcomers, in understanding open source clinical software.

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An Empirical Study on the Reuse of Third-Party Libraries in Open-Source Software Development

Cited by 26 publications

References 20 publications

Object-Oriented Requirements: Reusable, Understandable, Verifiable

Object-Oriented Requirements: Reusable, Understandable, Verifiable

Selecting third-party libraries: the practitioners’ perspective

A Systematic Review of Open Source Clinical Software on GitHub for Improving Software Reuse in Smart Healthcare

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