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Quantifying Reuse in OSS: A Large-Scale Empirical Study

Quantifying Reuse in OSS: A Large-Scale Empirical Study

Eleni Constantinou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Ioannis Stamelos
Copyright: © 2014 |Volume: 5 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 1942-3926|EISSN: 1942-3934|EISBN13: 9781466656079|DOI: 10.4018/IJOSSP.2014070101
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Constantinou, Eleni, et al. "Quantifying Reuse in OSS: A Large-Scale Empirical Study." IJOSSP vol.5, no.3 2014: pp.1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOSSP.2014070101

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Constantinou, E., Ampatzoglou, A., & Stamelos, I. (2014). Quantifying Reuse in OSS: A Large-Scale Empirical Study. International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP), 5(3), 1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOSSP.2014070101

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Constantinou, Eleni, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, and Ioannis Stamelos. "Quantifying Reuse in OSS: A Large-Scale Empirical Study," International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) 5, no.3: 1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOSSP.2014070101

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Abstract

Reuse is an established software development practice, whose benefits have attracted the attention of researchers and practitioners. In order for software reuse to advance from an opportunistic activity to a well-defined, systematic state of practice, the reuse phenomenon should be empirically studied in a real-world environment. To this end, OSS projects consist a fitting context for this purpose. In this paper, the authors aim at assessing the: (a) strategy and intensity of reuse activities in OSS development, (b)effect of reuse activities on design quality, (c) modification of reuse decisions from a chronological viewpoint and (d) effect of these modifications on software design quality. In order to achieve these goals, the authors performed a large-scale embedded multi-case study on 1,111 Java projects, extracted from Google Code repository. The results of the case study provide a valuable insight on reuse processes in OSS development, that can be exploited by both researchers and practitioners.

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