An Empirical Study of the Impact of COVID-19 on OSS Development

2022 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1109/QRS-C57518.2022.00112

Lingfei Ma, Liming Nie, Chenxi Mao, Yaowen Zheng, Y. Liu

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In this paper, we propose an analytical model that can analyze the impact of emergencies on open source software (OSS) development. As the core of this model, a metric system is used to comprehensively describe the OSS development process, which includes three dimensions: team activity, development activity, and development risk, with a total of 30 metrics. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the model, we construct an empirical study analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on OSS development. This study is based on the development process events between January 2019 and April 2022 belonging to 50 selected open source projects on GitHub. The results show that more than 72.4% of projects were negatively impacted following the COVID-19 outbreak. Interestingly, we observe that variants of covide-19 did not exacerbate its impact on software development. On the contrary, some project development activities have obviously resumed, indicating that the development team has adapted and gradually got rid of the impact of the epidemic.

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新冠肺炎疫情对开源软件开发影响的实证研究

本文提出了一个分析突发事件对开源软件(OSS)开发影响的分析模型。作为该模型的核心，度量系统被用于全面描述OSS开发过程，它包括三个维度:团队活动、开发活动和开发风险，总共有30个度量。为了验证模型的有效性，我们构建了一项实证研究，分析COVID-19对OSS发展的影响。本研究基于GitHub上50个选定的开源项目在2019年1月至2022年4月之间的开发过程事件。结果显示，超过72.4%的项目受到新冠肺炎疫情的负面影响。有趣的是，我们观察到covid -19的变种并没有加剧其对软件开发的影响。相反，一些项目开发活动明显恢复，表明开发团队已经适应并逐渐摆脱疫情的影响。

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2022 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C)

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