3 papers
cs.SE2026
What Motivates Whom? A Survey of Newcomers to OSS and Experienced OSS Practitioners
Shashiwadana Nirmani, Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Mojtaba Shahin +1
Open source software (OSS) development continues to expand, yet software practitioners often struggle to select suitable projects, leading to inefficient onboarding and disengageme…
cs.SE2026
Beyond Code: Empirical Insights into How Team Dynamics Influence OSS Project Selection
Shashiwadana Nirmani, Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Mojtaba Shahin +1
Open-source software (OSS) development relies on effective collaboration among distributed contributors. Yet, current OSS project recommendation systems primarily emphasize technic…
cs.SE2025
A Systematic Literature Review on Task Recommendation Systems for Crowdsourced Software Engineering
Shashiwadana Nirmani, Mojtaba Shahin, Hourieh Khalajzadeh +1
Crowdsourced Software Engineering (CSE) offers outsourcing work to software practitioners by leveraging a global online workforce. However, these software practitioners struggle to…