Can I Depend on you? Mapping the Dependency and Quality Landscape of ROS Packages

Pichler, Marc; Dieber, Bernhard; Pinzger, Martin

doi:10.1109/irc.2019.00020

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“…Quality in robotics, still on its early stages [30] (though much more developed than security in the author's opinion), is often viewed as a pre-condition for Safety-critical systems. Similarly, as argued by several, safety can not be guaranteed without security [31,32].…”

Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

DevSecOps in Robotics

Mayoral-Vilches¹,

García-Maestro²,

Towers³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Quality in software is often understood as "execution according to design purpose" whereas security means that "software will not put data or computing systems at risk of unauthorized access." There seems to be a connection between these two aspects but, how do we integrate both of them in the robotics development cycle? In this article we introduce DevSecOps in Robotics, a set of best practices designed to help roboticists implant security deep in the heart of their development and operations processes. First, we briefly describe DevOps, introduce the value added with DevSecOps and describe and illustrate how these practices may be implemented in the robotics field. We finalize with a discussion on the relationship between security, quality and safety, open problems and future research questions.

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Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

DevSecOps in Robotics

Mayoral-Vilches¹,

García-Maestro²,

Towers³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…In recent studies, researchers pay more attention to the ecology of ROS and the dependencies between ROS packages, etc. Pichler et al studied the interdependencies between ROS packages on GitHub, BitBucket, and the rosdistro, and how quality propagates through the dependency network [10]. In an empirical study consisting of interviews and a survey with ROS developers, Estefo et al investigated the difficulties that ROS users encounter when reusing ROS packages, main contribution bottlenecks in ROS ecosystem [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

An Efficient ROS Package Searching Approach Powered By Knowledge Graph

Chen¹

2021

Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Over the past several years, the Robot Operating System (ROS), has grown from a small research project into the most popular framework for robotics development. It offers a core set of software for operating robots that can be extended by creating or using existing packages, making it possible to program robotic software that can be reused on different hardware platforms. With thousands of packages available per stable distribution, encapsulating algorithms, sensor drivers, etc., it is the de facto middleware for robotics. However, finding the proper ROS package is a nontrivial task because ROS packages involve different functions and even with the same function, there are different ROS packages for different tasks. So it is timeconsuming for developers to find suitable ROS packages for given task, especially for newcomers. To tackle this challenge, we build a ROS package knowledge graph, ROSKG, including the basic information of ROS packages and ROS package characteristics extracted from text descriptions, to comprehensively and precisely characterize ROS packages. Based on ROSKG, we support ROS packages search with specific task description or attributes as input. A comprehensive evaluation of ROSKG shows the high accuracy of our knowledge construction approach. A user study shows that ROSKG is promising in helping developers find suitable ROS packages for robotics software development tasks.

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“…To allow independent replication and verification of the study, we provide a full replication package 2 including the details of the research protocol, sample architectures, raw data, mining scripts in Python, and data analysis scripts in R. Figure 4 shows the steps for building the dataset of our study. The initial search (step 1) is based on (i) rosmap, a ROS dependency analysis tool that can also identify ROS-based repositories in GitHub, Bitbucket, and Gitlab [28] and (ii) ghtorrent, a widely-used queryable mirror of GitHub [16]. Then we filtered out fork repositories to avoid duplication (step 2).…”

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“…To design good quality robotic software in ROS, the work in [17,20] focuses on formally modeling ROS systems for real-time analysis and V&V. These do not really focus on the architecture of ROS systems, but could be used to generate or check the correctness of ROS systems. In terms of code quality, Pichler et al examine open source projects with tools such as cpplint and XML validation to analyze the quality of packages that many other ROS systems depend on [28]. They caution that many projects that ROS systems depend on are not engineered with code quality in mind, but are developed just to demonstrate particular functionalities.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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How do you architect your robots?

Malavolta

Lewis

Schmerl

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice

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Can I Depend on you? Mapping the Dependency and Quality Landscape of ROS Packages

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

DevSecOps in Robotics

DevSecOps in Robotics

An Efficient ROS Package Searching Approach Powered By Knowledge Graph

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