State of the Art and Practice of OpenSource Component Integration

Merilinna, Janne; Matinlassi, Mari

doi:10.1109/euromicro.2006.61

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“…A critical success factor in CBSD is the selection of appropriate OSS products, and both researchers and industry have proposed a variety of OSS evaluation and selection methods [18]. However, studies have also shown that practitioners typically do not use these "normative" selection methods [19,20]. Hauge et al observed a first fit rather than a best fit strategy [19].…”

Section: Component-based Development With Open Source Softwarementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Merilinna and Matinlassi investigated the state of the art and practice of OSS integration [20]; while they did not specifically focus on SA, they found that architectural mismatch was either preempted by selection of OSS components from a list of "fluently integrating" components, or that practitioners were not aware of the concept of architectural mismatch.…”

Section: Software Architecture In Open Source Software Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Importance of Architectural Knowledge in Integrating Open Source Software

Stol

Babar

Avgeriou

2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Open Source Software (OSS) is increasingly used in ComponentBased Software Development (CBSD) of large software systems. An important issue in CBSD is selection of suitable components. Various OSS selection methods have been proposed, but most of them do not consider the software architecture aspects of OSS products. The Software Architecture (SA) research community refers to a product's architectural information, such as design decisions and underlying rationale, and used architecture patterns, as Architecture Knowledge (AK). In order to investigate the importance of AK of OSS components in integration, we conducted an exploratory empirical study. Based on in-depth interviews with 12 IT professionals, this paper presents insights into the following questions: 1) what AK of OSS is needed? 2) Why is AK of OSS needed? 3) Is AK of OSS generally available? And 4) what is the relative importance of AK? Based on these new insights, we provide a research agenda to further the research field of software architecture in OSS.

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Section: Component-based Development With Open Source Softwarementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Software Architecture In Open Source Software Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of Architectural Knowledge in Integrating Open Source Software

Stol

Babar

Avgeriou

2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…However, both studies on COTS and OSS conclude that even though there are successful applications of normative selection methods for both COTS and OSS, such methods are rarely applied in practice [16,19,22,28]. Moreover, these studies conclude that practitioners use ad hoc, manual, and developer dependent methods for selection of components.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With the view that using the right software is critical to project success [31], software engineering researchers have focused their attention on developing normative methods for selecting OSS components [1,20,24,27]. While successful applications of such methods have been reported, research shows that component selection in practice is ad hoc and developer dependent [16,19,22,28]. Beyond sweeping statements about the prevalence of ad hoc and developer dependent selection methods, little is known about what software developers actually do when selecting OSS components.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An empirical study on selection of Open Source Software - Preliminary results

Hauge

Østerlie

Sørensen

et al. 2009

2009 ICSE Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development

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Growing attention on component-based development has inspired the development of several normative methods for selection of software components. Despite these efforts, empirical studies show only minor adoption of such methods. To understand how research can contribute to improving the selection of components we interviewed developers from 16 Norwegian software companies which integrate Open Source Software (OSS) components into their systems. We find that the selection of OSS components has a situational nature where project specific properties significantly constrain the selection's outcome, and that developers employ a 'first fit' rather than 'best fit' approach when selecting OSS components. This could explain the limited adoption of normative selection approaches and general evaluation schemas. Moreover, it motivates a shift from developing such methods and schemas towards understanding the situational nature of software selection.

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“…Although research and practitioners have proposed a diverse set of methods and evaluation guidelines for supporting components selection (e.g., [16,17,19]), these proposals have not been widely adopted in the industrial practice [15]. The literature presents various possible explanations for this: that the proposed methods are failing to deal with identification of components and information for evaluating them [4,6], and that it is impractical to perform complete evaluations in terms of time and cost [12].…”

Section: State-of-the-artmentioning

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Challenges of the Open Source Component Marketplace in the Industry

Ayala

Hauge

Conradi

et al. 2009

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. The reuse of Open Source Software components available on the Internet is playing a major role in the development of Component Based Software Systems. Nevertheless, the special nature of the OSS marketplace has taken the "classical" concept of software reuse based on centralized repositories to a completely different arena based on massive reuse over Internet. In this paper we provide an overview of the actual state of the OSS marketplace, and report preliminary findings about how companies interact with this marketplace to reuse OSS components. Such data was gathered from interviews in software companies in Spain and Norway. Based on these results we identify some challenges aimed to improve the industrial reuse of OSS components.

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State of the Art and Practice of OpenSource Component Integration

Cited by 32 publications

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The Importance of Architectural Knowledge in Integrating Open Source Software

The Importance of Architectural Knowledge in Integrating Open Source Software

An empirical study on selection of Open Source Software - Preliminary results

Challenges of the Open Source Component Marketplace in the Industry

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