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Automatic link extraction: The good, the bad and the ugly in software ecosystem mining
Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens
This abstract presents the automatic link extraction pitfalls based on our experience on manually investigating links in the RubyGems package manager metadata. This work can lead i…
Towards an interdisciplinary, socio-technical analysis of software ecosystem health
Tom Mens, Bram Adams, Josianne Marsan
This extended abstract presents the research goals and preliminary research results of the interdisciplinary research project SECOHealth, an ongoing collaboration between research…
An Empirical Comparison of Dependency Network Evolution in Seven Software Packaging Ecosystems
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Philippe Grosjean
Nearly every popular programming language comes with one or more package managers. The software packages distributed by such package managers form large software ecosystems. These…
An Empirical Comparison of Developer Retention in the RubyGems and npm Software Ecosystems
Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens
Software ecosystems can be viewed as socio-technical networks consisting of technical components (software packages) and social components (communities of developers) that maintain…
On the Interaction of Relational Database Access Technologies in Open Source Java Projects
Alexandre Decan, Mathieu Goeminne, Tom Mens
This article presents an empirical study of how the use of relational database access technologies in open source Java projects evolves over time. Our observations may be useful to…