3 papers
cs.SE2023
SciCat: A Curated Dataset of Scientific Software Repositories
Addi Malviya-Thakur, Reed Milewicz, Lavinia Paganini +2
The proliferation of open-source scientific software for science and research presents opportunities and challenges. In this paper, we introduce the SciCat dataset -- a comprehensi…
cs.SE2023
An Exploratory Study on the Evidence of Hackathons' Role in Solving OSS Newcomers' Challenges
Ahmed Samir Imam Mahmoud, Alexander Nolte, Dietmar Pfahl
Background: OSS projects face various challenges. One major challenge is to onboard and integrate newcomers to the project. Aim: We aim to understand and discuss the challenges new…
cs.SE2022
One-off Events? An Empirical Study of Hackathon Code Creation and Reuse
Ahmed Samir Imam Mahmoud, Tapajit Dey, Alexander Nolte +2
Background: Hackathons have become popular events for teams to collaborate on projects and develop software prototypes. Most existing research focuses on activities during an event…