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Abstract: Corporate use of open source in software products is on the rise. While this brings a number of technological and business benefits to companies, it also comes with potential legal and financial risks caused by license non-compliance and ungoverned use of open source components. Companies ...

Abstract: User experience design is an important part of software product development, and yet software product line engineering has largely ignored this topic. This paper pre-sents a set of industry best practices for user experience design in software product lines. We conducted multiple-case case...

Abstract: Almost all software products today incorporate free/libre, and open source software (FLOSS) components. Companies must govern their FLOSS use to avoid potential risks to their intellectual property resulting from the use of FLOSS components. A particular challenge is license compliance. To...

Abstract: Inner source (IS) is the use of open source software development (SD) practices and the establishment of an open source-like culture within an organization. IS enables and requires developers to collaborate more than traditional SD methods such as plan-driven or agile development. To bette...

Abstract: Inner Source (IS) is the use of open source software development practices and the establishment of an open source-like culture within organizations. The organization may still develop proprietary software but internally opens up its development. A steady stream of scientific literature an...

Inner source software engineering Inner source software development is software development utilizing open source best practices and processes for firm-internal software development. Engineering artifacts are laid open to the whole organization, inviting use and potential contribution across orga...

img.floatRight { float: right; margin: 16px; padding: 8px } The research project NetzDatenStrom has finally started. NetzDatenStrom is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy in the context of the 6th energy research program. Experts on research and development, softwar...

A photo of the research group, with guest Minghui Zhou of Peking University, celebrating the accept notice for a new tier-1 journal paper with cake in our kitchen.

Today, the Inner Source Governance project started. It is funded by Continental. For more information, please see inner source governance and processes (pool project).

Today, the Open Source Governance and Compliance project started. It is funded by a large German company. For more information, please open source governance and compliance (pool project).