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Extracting Insights from the Topology of the JavaScript Package Ecosystem
Nuttapon Lertwittayatrai, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Saya Onoue +4
Software ecosystems have had a tremendous impact on computing and society, capturing the attention of businesses, researchers, and policy makers alike. Massive ecosystems like the…
The Health and Wealth of OSS Projects: Evidence from Community Activities and Product Evolution
Saya Onoue, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Hideaki Hata +1
Background: Understanding the condition of OSS projects is important to analyze features and predict the future of projects. In the field of demography and economics, health and we…
An Empirical Study on the Impact of Refactoring Activities on Evolving Client-Used APIs
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Ali Ouni, Daniel M. German +1
Context: Refactoring is recognized as an effective practice to maintain evolving software systems. For software libraries, we study how library developers refactor their Applicatio…
Using High-Rising Cities to Visualize Performance in Real-Time
Katsuya Ogami, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Hideaki Hata +2
For developers concerned with a performance drop or improvement in their software, a profiler allows a developer to quickly search and identify bottlenecks and leaks that consume m…
On the Impact of Micro-Packages: An Empirical Study of the npm JavaScript Ecosystem
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Ali Ouni, Daniel M. German +1
The rise of user-contributed Open Source Software (OSS) ecosystems demonstrate their prevalence in the software engineering discipline. Libraries work together by depending on each…
Modeling Library Dependencies and Updates in Large Software Repository Universes
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Coen De Roover, Daniel M. German +2
Popular (re)use of third-party open-source software (OSS) is evidence of the impact of hosting repositories like maven on software development today. Updating libraries is crucial,…