Social coding enables a different experience of software development as the activities and
interests of one developer are easily advertised to other developers. Developers can thus …

Many software development projects struggle with creating and communicating a testing
culture that is appropriate for the project's needs. This may degrade software quality by …

Social coding paradigm is reshaping the distributed software development with a surprising
speed in recent years. Github, a remarkable social coding community, attracts a huge …

Continuous integration is a software engineering practice of frequently merging all
developer working copies with a shared main branch, eg, several times a day. With the …

Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding
features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or …

With the growing number of large scale software projects, software development and
maintenance demands the participation of larger groups. Having a thorough understanding …

Software engineering is a complex socio-technical activity, due to the need for discussing
and sharing knowledge among team members. This has raised the need for effective ways …

GitHub is a social coding platform that enables developers to efficiently work on projects,
connect with other developers, collaborate and generally" be seen: by the community. This …

Context: The pull-based model, widely used in distributed software development, offers an
extremely low barrier to entry for potential contributors (anyone can submit of contributions to …

Many software projects fail because they overlook stakeholders or involve the wrong
representatives of significant groups. Unfortunately, existing methods in stakeholder …