A Systematic Mapping Study of Software Development With GitHub

Cosentino, Valerio; Izquierdo, Javier Luis Cánovas; Cabot, Jordi

doi:10.1109/access.2017.2682323

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“…They found that the most influential can also impact the perceived quality [53]. Finally, as one of the findings of a systematic mapping study, Cosentino et al report that popularity (as measured by number of stars) is also useful to attract new developers to open source projects [37].…”

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What’s in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform

Borges¹,

Valente²

2018

Journal of Systems and Software

218

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Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or satisfaction with an open source project. However, the real and practical meaning of starring a project was never the subject of an in-depth and well-founded empirical investigation. Therefore, we provide in this paper a throughout study on the meaning, characteristics, and dynamic growth of GitHub stars. First, by surveying 791 developers, we report that three out of four developers consider the number of stars before using or contributing to a GitHub project. Then, we report a quantitative analysis on the characteristics of the top-5,000 most starred GitHub repositories. We propose four patterns to describe stars growth, which are derived after clustering the time series representing the number of stars of the studied repositories; we also reveal the perception of 115 developers about these growth patterns. To conclude, we provide a list of recommendations to open source project managers (e.g., on the importance of social media promotion) and to GitHub users and Software Engineering researchers (e.g., on the risks faced when selecting projects by GitHub stars).

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“…However, our goal is exactly to investigate the most starred repositories. Furthermore, most GitHub repositories are forks and have very low activity [35][36][37].…”

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What’s in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform

Borges¹,

Valente²

2018

Journal of Systems and Software

218

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“…We built our dataset by collecting the top-5,000 repositories by number of stars, which represents a small fraction in comparison to the GitHub's universe. However, most GitHub repositories are forks, have very low activity, or have a small community [7,14,15]. Despite the repository selection by number of stars, our dataset includes projects from a vast range of programming languages and domains.…”

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Borges¹,

Brito²,

Valente³

2019

Proceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

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Recently, GitHub introduced a new social feature, named reactions, which are "pictorial characters" similar to emoji symbols widely used nowadays in text-based communications. Particularly, GitHub users can use a pre-defined set of such symbols to react to issues and pull requests. However, little is known about the real usage and impact of GitHub reactions. In this paper, we analyze the reactions provided by developers to more than 2.5 million issues and 9.7 million issue comments, in order to answer an extensive list of nine research questions about the usage and adoption of reactions. We show that reactions are being increasingly used by open source developers. Moreover, we also found that issues with reactions usually take more time to be handled and have longer discussions.

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“…Thus, a rapidly evolving phenomenon has emerged, software ecosystems. A software ecosystem is defined as a collection of software projects that are developed together and coevolve, due to project relevance and shared developer communities, in the same environment [2,3].…”

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Identification-Method Research for Open-Source Software Ecosystems

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In recent years, open-source software (OSS) development has grown, with many developers around the world working on different OSS projects. A variety of open-source software ecosystems have emerged, for instance, GitHub, StackOverflow, and SourceForge. One of the most typical social-programming and code-hosting sites, GitHub, has amassed numerous open-source-software projects and developers in the same virtual collaboration platform. Since GitHub itself is a large open-source community, it hosts a collection of software projects that are developed together and coevolve. The great challenge here is how to identify the relationship between these projects, i.e., project relevance. Software-ecosystem identification is the basis of other studies in the ecosystem. Therefore, how to extract useful information in GitHub and identify software ecosystems is particularly important, and it is also a research area in symmetry. In this paper, a Topic-based Project Knowledge Metrics Framework (TPKMF) is proposed. By collecting the multisource dataset of an open-source ecosystem, project-relevance analysis of the open-source software is carried out on the basis of software-ecosystem identification. Then, we used our Spectral Clustering algorithm based on Core Project (CP-SC) to identify software-ecosystem projects and further identify software ecosystems. We verified that most software ecosystems usually contain a core software project, and most other projects are associated with it. Furthermore, we analyzed the characteristics of the ecosystem, and we also found that interactive information has greater impact on project relevance. Finally, we summarize the Topic-based Project Knowledge Metrics Framework.

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A Systematic Mapping Study of Software Development With GitHub

Cited by 116 publications

References 83 publications

What’s in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform

What’s in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform

Beyond Textual Issues

Identification-Method Research for Open-Source Software Ecosystems

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