Free and Open Source Software Development and Research: Opportunities for Software Engineering

Kon, Fábio; Meirelles, Paulo; Lago, Nelson; Terceiro, Antonio; Chávez, Christina; Mendonça, Manoel

doi:10.1109/sbes.2011.19

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“…This happens not only because of the large number of existing projects (in a wide range of size, complexity, domains and communities Ellis, Purcell, & Hislop, 2012), but also due to the students' diverse background and interest. Selected OSS should be neither too large and complex to overwhelm students, nor too small and simple to be so trivial and not favour the applicability of SE principles Kon et al, 2011).…”

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Open source projects in software engineering education: a mapping study

Nascimento

Bittencourt

Chávez

2015

Computer Science Education

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Context: It is common practice in academia to have students work with "toy" projects in software engineering (SE) courses. One way to make such courses more realistic and reduce the gap between academic courses and industry needs is getting students involved in open source projects (OSP) with faculty supervision. Objective: This study aims to summarize the literature on how OSP have been used to facilitate students' learning of SE. Method: A systematic mapping study was undertaken by identifying, filtering and classifying primary studies using a predefined strategy. Results: 72 papers were selected and classified. The main results were: (a) most studies focused on comprehensive SE courses, although some dealt with specific areas; (b) the most prevalent approach was the traditional project method; (c) studies' general goals were: learning SE concepts and principles by using OSP, learning open source software or both; (d) most studies tried out ideas in regular courses within the curriculum; (e) in general, students had to work with predefined projects; (f) there was a balance between approaches where instructors had either inside control or no control on the activities performed by students; (g) when learning was assessed, software artefacts, reports and presentations were the main instruments used by teachers, while surveys were widely used for students' self-assessment; (h) most studies were published in the last seven years. Conclusions: The resulting map gives an overview of the existing initiatives in this context and shows gaps where further research can be pursued.

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confidence: 99%

Open source projects in software engineering education: a mapping study

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Bittencourt

Chávez

2015

Computer Science Education

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“…This sometimes, preventing users to impose restrictions on other users. In order to make this possible, access to the source code is a necessary condition [3,4].…”

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“…OpenGIS (Open GIS Interoperability Specification) is coming to address the above issues, the specification defines a detailed criteria for GIS software developers. In these cases, open source applications have an equal potential for large-scale implementation across a broad range of platforms, but they can be far more cost-effective and flexible [4].…”

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OSGIS & FOSS in LBS Design

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Advances in Intelligent Systems Research

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“…Their main focus is how the geographically scattered teams manage team awareness. [12] have conducted a literature review and indentified the challenges that emerge during OSS development. Their study is more focused towards the challenges of using OSS in developing the system.…”

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“…The basic thought is that it should wind up as powerful and strong Bug Ontology that can be used by bugs tracking tool i.e. bugzilla and other data storages to allow the people to query regarding bugs [12][13][14]. Figure 3 shows the main concepts involved in Bug ontology.…”

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Anti-patterns in Open Source Software Development

Bashir¹

2012

IJCA

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In software engineering, an Anti-pattern (or Anti-pattern) is a pattern that may be commonly used but is ineffective and/or counterproductive in practice. Anti-patterns or bad practices are not novel; they are ordinary in software industry, and have been since software's inception. The foundation of antipatterns initiated in 1980 and continued to nurture in software community in 1990s. Analysis of anti-patterns assists to identify the common faults in software projects. These are the practices performed by experienced people or project managers that provide guidance to avoid project failure. We feel there is a lack of empirical knowledge about anti-patterns in open source software development which direct the practitioners about bad practices that can influence the software quality. This paper exposes the software project management antipatterns and their impact on open source software development where developers work in variable locations, seldom or certainly not meet face to face, and manage their activities through emails and video conferencing. The main aim of the paper is to uncover the anti-patterns, which are present in open source software development and to provide a knowledge based solution to avoid them.

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Free and Open Source Software Development and Research: Opportunities for Software Engineering

Cited by 12 publications

References 36 publications

Open source projects in software engineering education: a mapping study

Open source projects in software engineering education: a mapping study

OSGIS & FOSS in LBS Design

Anti-patterns in Open Source Software Development

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