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The "Shut the f**k up" Phenomenon: Characterizing Incivility in Open Source Code Review Discussions
Isabella Ferreira, Jinghui Cheng, Bram Adams
Code review is an important quality assurance activity for software development. Code review discussions among developers and maintainers can be heated and sometimes involve person…
Towards Using Package Centrality Trend to Identify Packages in Decline
Suhaib Mujahid, Diego Elias Costa, Rabe Abdalkareem +3
Due to their increasing complexity, today's software systems are frequently built by leveraging reusable code in the form of libraries and packages. Software ecosystems (e.g., npm)…
Studying Ad Library Integration Strategies of Top Free-to-Download Apps
Md Ahasanuzzaman, Safwat Hassan, Ahmed E. Hassan
In-app advertisements have become a major revenue source for app developers in the mobile app ecosystem. Ad libraries play an integral part in this ecosystem as app developers inte…
Execution of Partial State Machine Models
Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Nafiseh Kahani, Karim Jahed +1
The iterative and incremental nature of software development using models typically makes a model of a system incomplete (i.e., partial) until a more advanced and complete stage of…
An Empirical Study of the Characteristics of Popular Minecraft Mods
Daniel Lee, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Dayi Lin +3
It is becoming increasingly difficult for game developers to manage the cost of developing a game, while meeting the high expectations of gamers. One way to balance the increasing…
Building the perfect game -- an empirical study of game modifications
Daniel Lee, Dayi Lin, Cor-Paul Bezemer +1
Game developers cannot always meet the growing and changing needs of the gaming community, due to the often already overloaded schedules of developers. So-called modders can potent…