Context Global software development (GSD) contains different context setting dimensions,
which are essential for effective teamwork and success of projects. Although considerable …

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core and has provoked an overnight
exodus of developers who normally worked in an office setting to working from home. The …

The mass shift to working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed the
way many software development teams collaborate and communicate. To investigate how …

Modern software development frequently uses third-party packages, raising the concern of
supply chain security attacks. Many attackers target popular package managers, like npm …

Software engineering evolved from a rigid process to a dynamic interplay of people (eg,
stakeholders or developers). Organizational and social literature call this interplay an …

The advent of distributed version control systems has led to the development of a new
paradigm for distributed software development; instead of pushing changes to a central …

Software development is usually a collaborative venture. Open Source Software (OSS)
projects are no exception; indeed, by design, the OSS approach can accommodate teams …

Ownership is a key aspect of large-scale software development. We examine the
relationship between different ownership measures and software failures in two large …

Classifier specific (CS) and classifier agnostic (CA) feature importance methods are widely
used (often interchangeably) by prior studies to derive feature importance ranks from a …

Software bugs affect system reliability. When a bug is exposed in the field, developers need
to fix them. Unfortunately, the bug-fixing process can also introduce errors, which leads to …