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Trust challenges in reusing open source software: an interview-based initial study

Trust challenges in reusing open source software: an interview-based initial study
Trust challenges in reusing open source software: an interview-based initial study
Open source projects play a significant role in software production. Most of the software projects reuse and build upon the existing open source projects and libraries. While reusing is a time and cost-saving strategy, some of the key factors are often neglected that create vulnerability in the software system. We look beyond the static code analysis and dependency chain tracing to prevent vulnerabilities at the human factors level. The literature lacks a comprehensive study of the human factors perspective on the issue of trust in reusing open source projects. We performed an interview-based initial study with software developers to get an understanding of the trust issue and limitations among the practitioners. We outline some of the key trust issues in this paper and lay out the first steps toward the trustworthy reuse of software.
cs.SE
110–116
Association for Computing Machinery
Ghofrani, Javad
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Heravi, Paria
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Babaei, Kambiz A.
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Soorati, Mohammad D.
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Ghofrani, Javad
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Heravi, Paria
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Babaei, Kambiz A.
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Soorati, Mohammad D.
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Ghofrani, Javad, Heravi, Paria, Babaei, Kambiz A. and Soorati, Mohammad D. (2022) Trust challenges in reusing open source software: an interview-based initial study. In SPLC '22: Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B. Association for Computing Machinery. 110–116 . (doi:10.48550/arXiv.2208.01137).

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Open source projects play a significant role in software production. Most of the software projects reuse and build upon the existing open source projects and libraries. While reusing is a time and cost-saving strategy, some of the key factors are often neglected that create vulnerability in the software system. We look beyond the static code analysis and dependency chain tracing to prevent vulnerabilities at the human factors level. The literature lacks a comprehensive study of the human factors perspective on the issue of trust in reusing open source projects. We performed an interview-based initial study with software developers to get an understanding of the trust issue and limitations among the practitioners. We outline some of the key trust issues in this paper and lay out the first steps toward the trustworthy reuse of software.

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Published date: 12 September 2022
Additional Information: To appear in Proceedings of 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B
Keywords: cs.SE

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Local EPrints ID: 472596
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/472596
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ORCID for Mohammad D. Soorati: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6954-1284

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Date deposited: 09 Dec 2022 17:39
Last modified: 26 Jun 2024 01:59

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Author: Javad Ghofrani
Author: Paria Heravi
Author: Kambiz A. Babaei
Author: Mohammad D. Soorati ORCID iD

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