Social barriers faced by newcomers placing their first contribution in open source software projects

I Steinmacher, T Conte, MA Gerosa… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Newcomers' seamless onboarding is important for online communities that depend upon
leveraging the contribution of outsiders. Previous studies investigated aspects of the joining …

Preliminary empirical identification of barriers faced by newcomers to Open Source Software projects

I Steinmacher, AP Chaves, TU Conte… - 2014 Brazilian …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When newcomers try to join an open source software (OSS) project, they face many barriers
that hinder their first contribution, leading in many cases to their drop** out. Many projects …

The hard life of open source software project newcomers

I Steinmacher, IS Wiese, T Conte, MA Gerosa… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
While onboarding an open source software (OSS) project, contributors face many different
barriers that hinder their contribution, leading in many cases to dropouts. Many projects …

Understanding and supporting the choice of an appropriate task to start with in open source software communities

I Steinmacher, TU Conte… - 2015 48th Hawaii …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Open Source Software (OSS) projects leverage the contribution of outsiders. In fact, the
sustainability of many projects relies on retaining some of these newcomers. Usually these …

Partial validation of configurations at runtime

A Jahanbanifar, F Khendek… - 2015 IEEE 18th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A system configuration is a set of configuration entities, their relations and the rules the
system should obey. At runtime the configuration may be modified to meet new …

Choosing an appropriate task to start with in open source software communities: A hard task

I Steinmacher, MA Gerosa - … , CRIWG 2014, Santiago, Chile, September 7 …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Open Source Software (OSS) projects leverage the contribution of outsiders.
Usually these communities do not coordinate the work of the newcomers, who go to the …

Evaluation of an efficient control-oriented coverage metric

K Ramineni, S Verma, IG Harris - 2008 IEEE International High …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic verification, the use of simulation to determine design correctness, is widely used
due to its tractability for large designs. A serious limitation of dynamic techniques is the …