How do community smells influence code smells?

Palomba, Fabio; Tamburri, Damian A.; Serebrenik, Alexander; Zaidman, Andy; Fontana, Francesca Arcelli; Oliveto, Rocco

doi:10.1145/3183440.3194950

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“…According to the survey participants, 51% of the factors that helped in their attraction are social in nature; and 44% of the barriers faced in this process are also human and social ones. The importance of human and social barriers to technical contributions was also observed by Palomba et al [32]. Our findings, therefore, confirm the importance of human and social factors in OSS development.…”

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confidence: 91%

On the abandonment and survival of open source projects: An empirical investigation

Avelino

Constantinou

Valente

et al. 2019

2019 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

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Background: Evolution of open source projects frequently depends on a small number of core developers. The loss of such core developers might be detrimental for projects and even threaten their entire continuation. However, it is possible that new core developers assume the project maintenance and allow the project to survive. Aims: The objective of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on: 1) the frequency of project abandonment and survival, 2) the differences between abandoned and surviving projects, and 3) the motivation and difficulties faced when assuming an abandoned project. Method: We adopt a mixed-methods approach to investigate project abandonment and survival. We carefully select 1,932 popular GitHub projects and recover the abandoned and surviving projects, and conduct a survey with developers that have been instrumental in the survival of the projects. Results: We found that 315 projects (16%) were abandoned and 128 of these projects (41%) survived because of new core developers who assumed the project development. The survey indicates that (i) in most cases the new maintainers were aware of the project abandonment risks when they started to contribute; (ii) their own usage of the systems is the main motivation to contribute to such projects; (iii) human and social factors played a key role when making these contributions; and (iv) lack of time and the difficulty to obtain push access to the repositories are the main barriers faced by them. Conclusions: Project abandonment is a reality even in large open source projects and our work enables a better understanding of such risks, as well as highlights ways in avoiding them.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

On the abandonment and survival of open source projects: An empirical investigation

Avelino

Constantinou

Valente

et al. 2019

2019 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

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“…In this respect, our work is unique. As a final note, it is worth highlighting that we preliminarily assessed how community smells influence code smells [139] by surveying developers on such a relation. Our results indicated that community-related factors were intuitively perceived by most developers as causes of the persistence of code smells.…”

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Beyond Technical Aspects: How Do Community Smells Influence the Intensity of Code Smells?

Palomba

Tamburri

Fontana

et al. 2021

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…Our findings highlight a prominence of subversive dimensions. The existence and prominence of such dimensions further motivates streams of inquiry around social software engineering [47] and the quality of organizational and community structures [48]- [50] for software engineering.…”

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Success and Failure in Software Engineering: A Followup Systematic Literature Review

Tamburri

Palomba

Kazman

2021

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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Success and failure in software engineering are still among the least understood phenomena in the discipline. In a recent special journal issue on the topic, Mäntylä et al. started discussing these topics from different angles; the authors focused their contributions on offering a general overview of both topics without deeper detail. Recognizing the importance and impact of the topic, in this article we have executed a followup, more in-depth systematic literature review with additional analyses beyond what was previously provided. These new analyses offer: a grounded-theory of success and failure factors, harvesting over 500+ factors from the literature; 14 manually validated clusters of factors that provide relevant areas for success-and failure-specific measurement and risk-analysis; a quality model composed of previously unmeasured organizational structure quantities which are germane to software product, process, and community quality. We show that the topics of success and failure deserve further study as well as further automated tool support, e.g., monitoring tools and metrics able to track the factors and patterns emerging from this article. This article provides managers with risks as well as a more fine-grained analysis of the parameters that can be appraised to anticipate the risks.

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How do community smells influence code smells?

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

On the abandonment and survival of open source projects: An empirical investigation

On the abandonment and survival of open source projects: An empirical investigation

Beyond Technical Aspects: How Do Community Smells Influence the Intensity of Code Smells?

Success and Failure in Software Engineering: A Followup Systematic Literature Review

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