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SoHeal 2021
Sat 29 May 2021
co-located with ICSE 2021
Sat 29 May 2021 17:30 - 17:45 at SoHeal Room - Second Session Chair(s): Gemma Catolino

Open source projects are most often evaluated by potential contributors and consumers using metrics that describe a level of activity within the project because those measurements are available. The principle question in the minds of most evaluators, however, is “How healthy and sustainable is this project in the context of its competitors or dependent projects”? Limitations of current analysis methods focused on trace data alone are discussed, and reviewed in depth. Next, our methods for conducting engaged field research, developing metrics standards as part of a corporate communal partnership, and molding tools that evolve through a reflexive discourse with practitioners using standard metrics is framed as an approach to consider for examining open source software health and sustainability. Researchers, in particular, need tools for increasing the feasibility of comprehensive, multi-project health and sustainability studies, and connecting trace data with human experience. From a practice perspective, these same conditions are increasing the difficulty organizations and individuals engaged in open source face when trying to understand the status, condition, and health of a particular project, the project’s ecosystem or ecosystems emerging around their specific project context. This study examines the work of a Linux Foundation working group, CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics Open Source Software) during the first four years of the formation. The paper concludes with examples of CHAOSS metrics operationalized in partnership with corporate collaborators in a manner that emphasizes comparison, transparency, trajectory and visualization as components for discursive, evolutionary understanding of open source software health

Sat 29 May

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17:00 - 18:15
Second SessionSoHeal 2021 at SoHeal Room
Chair(s): Gemma Catolino Tilburg University & ​Jheronimus Academy of Data Science

Presentations will be pre-recorded (15mn).

Pitches and Q&A will be organized at the end of the session, in sequence for each presentation

  • Pitches by authors (3 min) will include a summary or most important results, and provocative questions to the audience.

  • Q&A (7mn).

17:00
15m
Talk
Can Test Cases Foresee Software Health? Results from a Recent Empirical Study
SoHeal 2021
Fabiano Pecorelli University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno
Media Attached
17:15
15m
Research paper
Health is Wealth: Evaluating the Health of the Bitcoin Ecosystem in GitHub
SoHeal 2021
Khadija Osman Carleton University, Canada, Olga Baysal Carleton University
Pre-print Media Attached
17:30
15m
Research paper
Open Source Community Health: Analytical Metrics and Their Corresponding Narratives
SoHeal 2021
Sean P. Goggins University of Missouri, Kevin Lumbard University of Nebraska at Omaha, Matt Germonprez
Pre-print Media Attached
17:45
30m
Live Q&A
Pitches and Discussion
SoHeal 2021

Media Attached

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Sat 29 May 2021 17:00 - 18:15 at SoHeal Room - Second Session Chair(s): Gemma Catolino
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