An Empirical Study of Security Issues Posted in Open Source Projects

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dc.contributor.authorZahedi, Mansooreh
dc.contributor.authorAli Babar, Muhammad
dc.contributor.authorTreude, Christoph
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-28T02:17:36Z
dc.date.available2017-12-28T02:17:36Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-03
dc.description.abstractWhen developers gain thorough understanding and knowledge of software security, they can produce more secure software. This study aims at empirically identifying and understanding the security issues posted on a random sample of GitHub repositories. We tried to understand the presence of security issues and their key themes and topics. We applied a mixed-methods approach, combining topic modeling techniques and qualitative analysis. Our findings have revealed that a) the rate of security-related issues was rather small (approx. 3% of all issues), b) the majority of the security issues were related to identity management and cryptography topics. We present 7 high-level themes of problems that developers face in implementing security features.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2018.686
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-1-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/50575
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCyber Security and Software Assurance
dc.subjectEmpirical Research GitHub Software Security Software Repository Mining Topic Modeling
dc.titleAn Empirical Study of Security Issues Posted in Open Source Projects
dc.typeConference Paper
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