Challenges in using open source software in product development

Stol, Klaas-Jan; Babar, Muhammad Ali

doi:10.1145/1833272.1833276

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“…Recent systematic reviews reveal that integration is one of the most popular strategies of adopting OSS [2], [4].…”

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, Stol and Ali Babar in [4] did a systematic synthesis of the reported challenges of integrating OSS and ended up with a comprehensive list of challenges related to OSS integration. Even though there is a considerable body of research on the challenges of integrating OSS components in the development of software products [2], [4], the majority of these works refer to success stories derived from single case studies or experience reports that provide very limited information about the real industrial landscape of companies integrating OSS components.…”

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even though there is a considerable body of research on the challenges of integrating OSS components in the development of software products [2], [4], the majority of these works refer to success stories derived from single case studies or experience reports that provide very limited information about the real industrial landscape of companies integrating OSS components. Moreover, the role that OSS communities play on supporting integrators to solve their integration problems has not been further explored.…”

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The integrator (i.e., the person(s) in charge of integrating OSS component(s) into the software system) is then faced with the issue of maintaining this derived version, and must decide how to handle these extensions and modifications. As a result, each organization that modifies OSS components and incorporates them in its own applications is faced with the issue of whether to contribute or not to the OSS community [3], [4]. On the other hand, some studies emphasize that high-quality OSS components rely heavily on having a large, sustainable community to develop code rapidly, debug code effectively, and build new features [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective

Ayala

Cruzes

Nguyen

et al. 2012

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. The reuse and integration of Open Source Software (OSS) components provided by OSS communities is becoming an economical and strategic need for today's organizations. The integration of OSS components provides many benefits, but also risks and challenges. One of the most important risks is the lack of effective and timely OSS community support for dealing with possible integration problems. For gaining an understanding of the common problems that organizations face when integrating OSS components, and the role played by OSS communities, we performed an exploratory study on 25 OSS integration projects from different European organizations. The results show that the main way of reducing integration problems was the use of OSS components from well-established communities; therefore very few integration problems were identified. In most of the cases these problems were successfully solved with the support from the OSS community and/or colleagues. In addition, contrary to the common belief that understanding code from someone else is a hard and undesirable task, some integrators consider OSS code even more understandable than their own code.

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“…Recent systematic reviews reveal that integration is one of the most popular strategies of adopting OSS [2], [4].…”

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective

Ayala

Cruzes

Nguyen

et al. 2012

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…However, there is quite a large body of research on the challenges of using OSS components in developing products, and in previous research, we identified 21 unique challenges as part of a systematic literature review [14]. This apparent lack of research on the challenges of product development in Inner Source motivated us to undertake a research effort aimed at identifying the challenges being faced by an organization that builds products that include in-house developed software components using OSS development practices (within the organization).…”

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A comparative study of challenges in integrating Open Source Software and Inner Source Software

Stol

Babar

Avgeriou

et al. 2011

Information and Software Technology

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Quality evaluation models or frameworks for open source software: A systematic literature review

Yılmaz

Tarhan

2022

J Software Evolu Process

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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 quality evaluation models or frameworks (QEMoF) proposed for OSS, their adoption in practice remains limited. To further investigate this argument, a systematic literature review (SLR) has been conducted to characterize the existing QEMoF for OSS, based on particular properties, and to examine comprehensively their content and structure for identifying the gap between theory and practice. In this context, a total of 36 primary studies in the period of 2003-2020 have been analyzed. It has been identified that the majority of QEMoF takes ISO/IEC 9126 as a reference, evaluates community-based aspects, mostly evaluates maintainability and usability as quality attributes, supports subjective and quantitative evaluations, and faces challenges due to diverse and dynamic nature of OSS products. For a better overview of the state of the art in the field, evaluation criteria for comparing the overall quality of the QEMoF are identified and applied. Finally, overall findings are discussed, and suggestions are provided for practitioners and researchers to formulate more robust studies in the future, which can advance the current situation for the benefit of the software community.

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Challenges in using open source software in product development

Cited by 29 publications

References 33 publications

OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective

OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective

A comparative study of challenges in integrating Open Source Software and Inner Source Software

Quality evaluation models or frameworks for open source software: A systematic literature review

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