Community smells—The sources of social debt: A systematic literature review

E Caballero-Espinosa, JC Carver, K Stowers - Information and Software …, 2023 - Elsevier
Context: Social debt describes the accumulation of unforeseen project costs (or potential
costs) from sub-optimal software development processes. Community smells are …

How to characterize the health of an Open Source Software project? A snowball literature review of an emerging practice

J Linåker, E Papatheocharous, T Olsson - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Motivation: Society's dependence on Open Source Software (OSS) and the communities that
maintain the OSS is ever-growing. So are the potential risks of, eg, vulnerabilities being …

Towards better dependency management: A first look at dependency smells in python projects

Y Cao, L Chen, W Ma, Y Li, Y Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Managing cross-project dependencies is tricky in modern software development. A primary
way to manage dependencies is using dependency configuration files, which brings …

Predicting the emergence of community smells using socio-technical metrics: A machine-learning approach

F Palomba, DA Tamburri - Journal of Systems and Software, 2021 - Elsevier
Community smells represent sub-optimal conditions appearing within software development
communities (eg, non-communicating sub-teams, deviant contributors, etc.) that may lead to …

Learning to detect community smells in open source software projects

N Almarimi, A Ouni, MW Mkaouer - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Community smells are symptoms of organizational and social issues within the software
development community that often lead to additional project costs. Recent studies identified …

On the detection of community smells using genetic programming-based ensemble classifier chain

N Almarimi, A Ouni, M Chouchen, I Saidani… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Community smells are symptoms of organizational and social issues within the software
development community that often increase the project costs and impact software quality …

Evolving collaboration, dependencies, and use in the rust open source software ecosystem

W Schueller, J Wachs, VDP Servedio, S Thurner… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Open Source Software (OSS) is widely spread in industry, research, and
government. OSS represents an effective development model because it harnesses the …

[HTML][HTML] An Empirical Investigation Into the Influence of Software Communities' Cultural and Geographical Dispersion on Productivity

S Lambiase, G Catolino, F Pecorelli… - Journal of Systems and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Estimating and understanding software development productivity represent crucial tasks for
researchers and practitioners. Although different works focused on evaluating the impact of …

In search of socio-technical congruence: A large-scale longitudinal study

W Mauerer, M Joblin, DA Tamburri… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on a large-scale empirical study investigating the relevance of socio-technical
congruence over key basic software quality metrics, namely, bugs and churn. In particular …

Refactoring community smells in the wild: the practitioner's field manual

G Catolino, F Palomba, DA Tamburri… - Proceedings of the acm …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Community smells have been defined as sub-optimal organizational structures that may
lead to social debt. Previous studies have shown that they are highly diffused in both open …