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Does the duration of rapid release cycles affect the bug handling activity?
Thorn Jansen, Zeinab Abou Khalil, Eleni Constantinou +1
Software projects are regularly updated with new functionality and bug fixes through so-called releases. In recent years, many software projects have been shifting to shorter relea…
Identifying bot activity in GitHub pull request and issue comments
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou +1
Development bots are used on Github to automate repetitive activities. Such bots communicate with human actors via issue comments and pull request comments. Identifying such bot co…
On the abandonment and survival of open source projects: An empirical investigation
Guilherme Avelino, Eleni Constantinou, Marco Tulio Valente +1
Background: Evolution of open source projects frequently depends on a small number of core developers. The loss of such core developers might be detrimental for projects and even t…
Breaking the borders: an investigation of cross-ecosystem software packages
Eleni Constantinou, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
Software ecosystems are collections of projects that are developed and evolve together in the same environment. Existing literature investigates software ecosystems as isolated ent…
On the evolution of technical lag in the npm package dependency network
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Eleni Constantinou
Software packages developed and distributed through package managers extensively depend on other packages. These dependencies are regularly updated, for example to add new features…
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…
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…
Open Source Software: How Can Design Metrics Facilitate Architecture Recovery?
Eleni Constantinou, George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos
Modern software development methodologies include reuse of open source code. Reuse can be facilitated by architectural knowledge of the software, not necessarily provided in the do…