4 Theses

Abstract: Since mid 2017 the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) has been obligated to provide its weather data to the public for free. However, anyone who wants to access it needs to click through a file system hoping to still be on the right path to the desired weather data. Due to confusing folder names...

Abstract: The popularity of open source software development (OSS) strategies is increasing among organizations. Although it is not a new approach, the number of studies which concentrate on the open source user consortia strategy is limited. The goal of this thesis is to provide an overview of this...

Abstract: Offline usage is a great advantage for the web apps. It gives the opportunity to interact with the app without the need of constantly having the network connection. After network recovery the app synchronizes the collected offline data with the backend data. However, when the synchronized ...

Abstract: The number of open source software projects has continued to grow for many years now, with a portion of them being very successful and broadly adopted. For companies and individuals involved in an open source project, it is advantageous to estimate its success and longevity. There are...

Abstract: Components are fundamental building blocks in software engineering. Modern day software products are often a complex composition of many components from entirely different vendors. Some are proprietary software, while others are open source components. The reuse of open source compone...

Abstract:  Gitlab is an Software forge with integrated Continuous Integration (CI) and DevOps features under the MIT license for the non commercial version. As Gitlab is broadly used for inner source software development it is important to be able to measure code collaboration within existing e...

Abstract: "A world in which consuming open data is easy and safe.“ This is the vision of the JValue Open Data Service (ODS) that aims to bundle finding the right open data, using and combining it into an easy and intuitive process. The daily life of developers should be free from hardships, like wri...

Abstract:  Inner Source (IS) is the adoption of Open Source (OS) development practices and culture in a corporate environment to increase the efficiency and quality of software development (SD). The impact of IS certainly depends on the effectiveness of a company's effort to integrate IS by imp...

Abstract:  A wide spread concept of minimizing expenditure is automation, which is often applied in software development. Especially working with agile priciples based on rapid feedback, short productioncyles and frequent changes requires an automated development. Through an central instance th...

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." (Capraro & Riehle, 2016) However, it is currently impossible for an individual manager of an organization to account for ...