Influencers of Quality Assurance in an Open Source Community

Adam Alami; Yvonne Dittrich; Andrzej Wasowski

doi:10.1145/3195836.3195853

Influencers of Quality Assurance in an Open Source Community

Adam Alami, Yvonne Dittrich, Andrzej Wasowski

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Abstract

ROS (Robot Operating System) is an open source community in robotics that is developing standard robotics operating system facilities such as hardware abstraction, low-level device control, communication middleware, and a wide range of software components for robotics functionality. This paper studies the quality assurance practices of the ROS community. We use qualitative methods to understand how ideology, priorities of the community, culture, sustainability, complexity, and adaptability of the community affect the implementation of quality assurance practices. Our analysis suggests that software engineering practices require social and cultural alignment and adaptation to the community particularities to achieve seamless implementation in open source environments. This alignment should be incorporated into the design and implementation of quality assurance practices in open source communities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE '18)
Number of pages	8
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	27 May 2018
Pages	61-68
Article number	ICSE-WS-CHASE-22
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5725-8/18/05
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3195836.3195853
Publication status	Published - 27 May 2018
Event	11th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering - Sweden, Gothenburg Duration: 27 May 2018 → 27 May 2018 http://www.chaseresearch.org/workshops/chase-2018

Workshop

Workshop	11th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Location	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	27/05/2018 → 27/05/2018
Internet address	http://www.chaseresearch.org/workshops/chase-2018

Keywords

Open Source Software
Quality Assurance
OSS Community

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Alami, A, Dittrich, Y & Wasowski, A 2018, Influencers of Quality Assurance in an Open Source Community. in Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE '18)., ICSE-WS-CHASE-22, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 61-68, 11th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, Gothenburg, 27/05/2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3195836.3195853

Influencers of Quality Assurance in an Open Source Community. / Alami, Adam; Dittrich, Yvonne ; Wasowski, Andrzej.
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE '18). Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 61-68 ICSE-WS-CHASE-22.

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