Developer social networks (DSNs) are a tool for the analysis of community structures and
collaborations between developers in software projects and software ecosystems. Within …

In recent years, empirical studies on software engineering practices have primarily relied on
general-purpose social coding platforms such as GITHUB or GITLAB. With the emergence of …

Abstract Open Source Software (OSS) is widely spread in industry, research, and
government. OSS represents an effective development model because it harnesses the …

Collectives form nonequilibrium social structures characterized by volatile dynamics.
Individuals join or leave. Social relations change quickly. Therefore, unlike engineered or …

Resilience denotes the capacity of a system to withstand shocks and its ability to recover
from them. We develop a framework to quantify the resilience of highly volatile, non …

Community smells are negative patterns in software development teams' interactions that
impede their ability to successfully create software. Examples are team members working in …

Data from software repositories have become an important foundation for the empirical study
of software engineering processes. A recurring theme in the repository mining literature is …

The functional interaction structure of a team captures the preferences with which members
of different roles interact. This paper presents a data-driven approach to detect the functional …

Background: Despite a growing body of literature on the impact of software bots on open
source software development teams, their effects on team communication, coordination, and …

GitHub has become the central online platform for much of open source, hosting most open
source code repositories. With this popularity, the public digital traces of GitHub are now a …