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20092026
most citedPackage upgrades in FOSS distributions: details and challenges

42 citations · 64 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SE2026

Reclaiming Software Engineering as the Enabling Technology for the Digital Age

Tanja E. J. Vos, Tijs van der Storm, Alexander Serebrenik +4

Software engineering is the invisible infrastructure of the digital age. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, photonics, and cybersecurity relies on ad…

cs.DL2025

Making Software FAIR: A machine-assisted workflow for the research software lifecycle

Petr Knoth, Laurent Romary, Patrice Lopez +7

A key issue hindering discoverability, attribution and reusability of open research software is that its existence often remains hidden within the manuscript of research papers. Fo…

cs.DL2020★ 17 cited

Archiving and referencing source code with Software Heritage

Roberto Di Cosmo

Software, and software source code in particular, is widely used in modern research. It must be properly archived, referenced, described and cited in order to build a stable and lo…

cs.DL2019★ 5 cited

How to use Software Heritage for archiving and referencing your source code: guidelines and walkthrough

Roberto Di Cosmo

Software source code is an essential research output, and many research communities strongly encourage making the source code of the artefact available by archiving it in publicly-…

cs.SE2009

Strong Dependencies between Software Components

Pietro Abate, Jaap Boender, Roberto Di Cosmo +1

Component-based systems often describe context requirements in terms of explicit inter-component dependencies. Studying large instances of such systems?such as free and open source…

cs.SE2009★ 42 cited

Package upgrades in FOSS distributions: details and challenges

Roberto Di Cosmo, Stefano Zacchiroli, Paulo Trezentos

The upgrade problems faced by Free and Open Source Software distributions have characteristics not easily found elsewhere. We describe the structure of packages and their role in t…