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Analyzing the Adoption of Database Management Systems Throughout the History of Open Source Projects
Camila A. Paiva, Raquel Maximino, Frederico Paiva +8
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are widely used to store, retrieve, and manage the data handled by modern applications. Although prior work has studied the co-evolution of DBMS…
Biomedical Open Source Software: Crucial Packages and Hidden Heroes
Eva Maxfield Brown, Stephan Druskat, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne +5
Despite the importance of scientific software for research, it is often not formally recognized and rewarded. This is especially true for foundational libraries, which are hidden b…
Anticipating User Needs: Insights from Design Fiction on Conversational Agents for Computational Thinking
Jacob Penney, João Felipe Pimentel, Igor Steinmacher +1
Computational thinking, and by extension, computer programming, is notoriously challenging to learn. Conversational agents and generative artificial intelligence (genAI) have the p…
Tag that issue: Applying API-domain labels in issue tracking systems
Fabio Santos, Joseph Vargovich, Bianca Trinkenreich +8
Labeling issues with the skills required to complete them can help contributors to choose tasks in Open Source Software projects. However, manually labeling issues is time-consumin…
Designing for Cognitive Diversity: Improving the GitHub Experience for Newcomers
Italo Santos, João Felipe Pimentel, Igor Wiese +3
Social coding platforms such as GitHub have become defacto environments for collaborative programming and open source. When these platforms do not support specific cognitive styles…
On the Performance of Hybrid Search Strategies for Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering
Erica Mourão, João Felipe Pimentel, Leonardo Murta +3
Context: When conducting a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), researchers usually face the challenge of designing a search strategy that appropriately balances result quality and…