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A Systematic Review on the Use of Ontologies in Requirements Engineering 需求工程中本体使用的系统回顾

2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2014-11-03 DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2014.13

Diego Dermeval, Jéssyka Vilela, I. Bittencourt, J. Castro, Seiji Isotani, P. Brito

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引用次数: 24

Categorizing Faults in Exception Handling: A Study of Open Source Projects 异常处理中的故障分类:一个开源项目的研究

2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2014-11-03 DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2014.19

E. Barbosa, Alessandro F. Garcia, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa

引用次数: 22

Growing a Reduced Set of Mutation Operators 生成一个突变算子的约简集

2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2014-09-08 DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2014.14

M. Delamaro, Lin Deng, Nan Li, Vinicius H. S. Durelli, A. Offutt

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引用次数: 14

Reinforcing Software Engineering Learning through Provenance 通过出处加强软件工程学习

2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2014-09-08 DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2014.16

Troy C. Kohwalter, E. Clua, Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta

引用次数: 9

Preliminary Empirical Identification of Barriers Faced by Newcomers to Open Source Software Projects 开源软件项目新手面临的障碍的初步实证识别

2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2014-09-08 DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2014.9

Igor Steinmacher, A. Chaves, T. Conte, M. Gerosa

{"title":"Preliminary Empirical Identification of Barriers Faced by Newcomers to Open Source Software Projects","authors":"Igor Steinmacher, A. Chaves, T. Conte, M. Gerosa","doi":"10.1109/SBES.2014.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SBES.2014.9","url":null,"abstract":"When newcomers try to join an open source software (OSS) project, they face many barriers that hinder their first contribution, leading in many cases to their dropping out. Many projects leverage the contribution of outsiders, and the sustainability of the project relies on retaining some of these newcomers. This research aims to identify the barriers that hinder newcomers' onboarding to OSS projects. Our method consisted of a qualitative study conducted with data obtained from four different sources: (i) systematic literature review; (ii) feedback from nine graduate and undergraduate students after they tried to join OSS projects; (iii) 24 responses to a questionnaire sent to 9 OSS projects; and (iv) semi-structured interviews with 36 subjects from 14 different projects, including newcomers and experienced members. The method to select the candidate papers in the systematic literature review was querying four digital libraries and backward snowballing. The data obtained from the practitioners from all three sources, and the primary studies obtained in the systematic review were analyzed using used procedures of Grounded Theory's open and axial coding. The analysis resulted in a conceptual model composed of 58 barriers, grouped into six different categories: cultural differences, newcomers' characteristics, reception issues, orientation, technical hurdles, and documentation problems. We could observe recurrent barriers evidenced in different data sources. We could notice that the onboarding process of a newcomer to an OSS can be a tough task. This research brings empirical support relying on data from different sources, organizes and discusses the existing common wisdom about barriers faced by newcomers to OSS projects, which deserve attention from researchers and OSS communities.","PeriodicalId":426125,"journal":{"name":"2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124039694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 40

When Code-Anomaly Agglomerations Represent Architectural Problems? An Exploratory Study 代码异常聚集何时代表体系结构问题?一项探索性研究

2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2014-09-08 DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2014.18

W. Oizumi, Alessandro F. Garcia, T. Colanzi, M. Ferreira, Arndt von Staa

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引用次数: 35

Do Search-Based Approaches Improve the Design of Self-Adaptive Systems? A Controlled Experiment 基于搜索的方法能改进自适应系统的设计吗?对照实验

2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2014-09-08 DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2014.17

S. Andrade, R. Macêdo

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引用次数: 6

Towards a Difference Detection Algorithm Aware of Refactoring-Related Changes 一种能够感知重构相关变化的差分检测算法

2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2014-09-08 DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2014.21

F. J. Silva, E. Borel, Evandro Lopes, Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta

引用次数: 4

Using a Controlled Experiment to Evaluate Usability Inspection Technologies for Improving the Quality of Mobile Web Applications Earlier in their Design 使用控制实验来评估可用性检查技术，以提高移动Web应用程序在设计早期的质量

2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2014-09-08 DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2014.24

Luis Jorge Enrique Rivero Cabrejos, Guto Kawakami, T. Conte

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引用次数: 8

Do Rapid Releases Affect Bug Reopening? A Case Study of Firefox 快速发布会影响Bug重新打开吗?以Firefox为例

2014 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2014-09-08 DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2014.10

Rodrigo R. G. Souza, C. Chavez, R. Bittencourt

引用次数: 19