Stakeholders' social interaction in requirements engineering of open source software

Bhowmik, Tanmay

doi:10.1109/re.2014.6912300

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Evolving software forges: An experience report from Apache Allura

Tamburri

Palomba

2021

J Software Evolu Process

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The open‐source phenomenon has reached unimaginable proportions to a point in which it is virtually impossible to find large applications that do not rely on open‐source as well. However, such proportions may turn into a risk if the organizational and socio‐technical aspects (e.g., the contribution and release schemes) behind open‐source communities are not explicitly supported by open‐source forges by‐design. In an effort to make such aspects explicit and supported by‐design in open‐source forges, we conducted empirical software engineering as follows: (a) Through online industrial surveying, we elicited organizational and social aspects relevant in open‐source communities; (b) through action research, we extended a widely known open‐source support system and top‐level Apache project Allura; (c) through ethnography, we studied the Allura community, and learning from its social and organizational structure, (d) we elicited a metrics framework that support more explicit organizational and socio‐technical design principles around open‐source communities. This article is an experience report on these results and the lessons we learned in obtaining them. We found that the extensions provided to Apache Allura formed the basis for community awareness by design, providing valuable and usable community characteristics. Ultimately, however, the extensions we provided to Apache Allura were deactivated by its core developers because of performance overheads. Our results and lessons learned allow us to provide recommendations for designing forges, like Github. Architecting a forge is a participatory process that requires active engagement, hence remarking the need for mechanisms enabling it. At the same time, we conclude that a more active support for the governance is required to avoid the failure of the forge.

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Evolving software forges: An experience report from Apache Allura

Tamburri

Palomba

2021

J Software Evolu Process

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Using Dissemination and Implementation Strategies to Evaluate Requirement Elicitation Guidelines: A Case Study in a Bed Management System

Márquez

Taramasco

2020

IEEE Access

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Clinical software is a fundamental tool for supporting healthcare systems because it improves the quality of patient care and automatizes the most frequently performed clinical tasks. Nevertheless, since health systems include various components, such as supplies, transportation, laboratories, and interoperability, eliciting the most critical requirements for understanding the problem that the clinical software must solve is quite a complex task. Indeed, the requirement elicitation process may directly determine the success or failure of the clinical software. In this article, we present the D&I framework, a methodology that uses dissemination and implementation strategies to recommend guidelines for the elicitation of clinical software requirements. The objective of this framework is to support software developers in the identification of key requirements with the goal of more holistically understanding the problem to be solved by the clinical software. We evaluated the D&I framework with a real case study related to a bed management system. We employed a usability instrument with 50 clinicians to evaluate tasks in software modules that represent clinical priorities defined by stakeholders. The results indicate that the perception of usability by end users is acceptable, suggesting that the evaluated tasks satisfy the established clinical priorities. The D&I framework provides a starting point for research and discussion about the contribution of dissemination and implementation strategies to the body of knowledge about requirement engineering.

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Open innovation in software requirements engineering: A mapping study

Yin

Pfahl

2017

2017 8th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS)

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Stakeholders' social interaction in requirements engineering of open source software

Cited by 3 publications

References 149 publications

Evolving software forges: An experience report from Apache Allura

Evolving software forges: An experience report from Apache Allura

Using Dissemination and Implementation Strategies to Evaluate Requirement Elicitation Guidelines: A Case Study in a Bed Management System

Open innovation in software requirements engineering: A mapping study

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