Utilizing open source software in teaching practice-based software engineering courses

Dorodchi, Mohsen; Dehbozorgi, Nasrin

doi:10.1109/fie.2016.7757683

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“…Searching Shodan, we found 59,596 unique hosts. We wrote a web crawler for each software package, which would attempt to list every repository on each host, and would report when instances were unreachable (11,677), had no public repositories (44,863), or required login information to view repositories (2101). We then attempted to clone all public repositories, again logging when a repository failed to clone, sent us a redirect when we tried to clone, or required login information to clone.…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Open source has long been linked to academic institutions [25], including libraries [5,34], research centers [33,35], and the classroom [43]. Version control systems such as git have been interesting tools to assist in classroom learning [7,18], including computer science [11,26] and statistics [2] courses. GitHub has played a role in the classroom and for hosting scientific research [12,44], yet we expect many institutions to be either unwilling or unable to utilize GitHub or other commercial tools [8,27,43].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative

Trujillo

Bagrow

2022

EPJ Data Sci.

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GitHub has become the central online platform for much of open source, hosting most open source code repositories. With this popularity, the public digital traces of GitHub are now a valuable means to study teamwork and collaboration. In many ways, however, GitHub is a convenience sample, and may not be representative of open source development off the platform. Here we develop a novel, extensive sample of public open source project repositories outside of centralized platforms. We characterized these projects along a number of dimensions, and compare to a time-matched sample of corresponding GitHub projects. Our sample projects tend to have more collaborators, are maintained for longer periods, and tend to be more focused on academic and scientific problems.

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Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative

Trujillo

Bagrow

2022

EPJ Data Sci.

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“…In their work they highlight some aspects that can be effectively taught by promoting students' contributions to open source software, such as soft skills and technical writing, reverse engineering, software modeling, and learning to estimate, plan, and manage new requirements. Dorodchi and Dehbozorgi [16] proposed eight open source labs for teaching and practicing SE general activities based on FLOSS. They taught how to set-up the development environment; how to communicate inside an OSS community; how to use a source code versioning system, modelling OSS, and requirement analysis (they asked the students to analyse how to make some modifications to a large existing codebase); implementing and testing the proposed new features.…”

Section: Oss In Sementioning

confidence: 99%

Leveraging Final Degree Projects for Open Source Software Contributions

Pereira

2021

Electronics

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(1) Background: final year students of computer science engineering degrees must carry out a final degree project (FDP) in order to graduate. Students’ contributions to improve open source software (OSS) through FDPs can offer multiple benefits and challenges, both for the students, the instructors and for the project itself. This work reports on a practical experience developed by four students contributing to mature OSS projects during their FDPs, detailing how they addressed the multiple challenges involved, both from the students and teachers perspective. (2) Methods: we followed the work of four students contributing to two established OSS projects for two academic years and analyzed their work on GitHub and their responses to a survey. (3) Results: we obtained a set of specific recommendations for future practitioners and detailed a list of benefits achieved by steering FDP towards OSS contributions, for students, teachers and the OSS projects. (4) Conclusion: we find out that FDPs oriented towards enhancing OSS projects can introduce students into real-world, practical examples of software engineering principles, give them a boost in their confidence about their technical and communication skills and help them build a portfolio of contributions to daily used worldwide open source applications.

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