4.3 Finished Theses

Abstract: Many software companies use open source development practices inside the company‘s boundaries, which is called inner source. The Collaboration Management Suite (CMSuite), developed by the Open Source Research Group at the Friedrich-Alexander- University Erlangen-Nuernberg, is a software to...

Abstract: The cloud-based QDAcity platform allows to conduct collaborative research projects applying Qualitative Data Analysis methods and research validation through crowdsourcing. When using Qualitative Data Analysis as a research method, expressive measurements of the quality and maturity of the...

Abstract: Inner Source (IS) ist die Verwendung von Open Source (OS) Entwicklungspraktiken innerhalb einer Organisation. Einige Organisationen führen IS Projekte oder sogar IS Programme durch. Bisher gibt es zwar veröffentlichte OS Qualitätsmodelle, allerdings ist kein Qualitätsmodell speziell für IS ...

Abstract: Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment approaches have seen widespread adoption in the software industry. To harness such techniques effectively, close monitoring and detailed knowledge about the state of software in production is highly desirable. This thesis analyzes the JDownload...

Abstract: Open source practices and the establishment of an open source like culture within organizations is also called Inner Source (IS). The existing software Collaboration Metric Suite (CMSuite) provides metrics about collaboration between software projects. These metrics can validate the applic...

Abstract: Using open source code in commercial software development is gaining more and more momentum during the recent years. While providing benefits along all three dimensions of the software development’s magic triangle of cost, time and scope, use of open source in commercial setting holds...

Abstract: Wikis are an essential part of modern internet in order to store knowledge. However, to date, they lack functions which assist on restructuring and transforming the contents of a wiki. The task of maintaining the contents and structure is therefore time-consuming and error-prone. This...

Abstract: Die Plattform Sweble Hub ermöglicht es, Wiki-Inhalte auf Basis des Wiki Object Model s kollaborativ zu bearbeiten. Dies findet dadurch nicht, wie normalerweise üblich, auf Wikitext-Ebene statt, sondern nach dem Prinzip ’what you see is what you get’. Ziel ist es, das existierende Projekt u...

Abstract: Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) methods are based on manual coding of texts. To extract a domain model from a text corpus using QDA, information has to be extracted and compiled into the domain model by hand. This is especially a problem for cases where large amounts of data have to be ana...

Abstract: Due to the advantages, source code management is widely used nearly everywhere in software development. But often the access to organizational repositories is restricted to individual projects or groups. In contrast to that, Riehle, Capraro, Kips und Horn (2016) describe the application of...