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ICSR 2016: Software Reuse: Bridging with Social-Awareness pp 247–264Cite as

Pragmatic Software Reuse in Bioinformatics: How Can Social Network Information Help?

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Abstract

Little is known about the specific kinds of questions that bioinformatics programmers ask during pragmatic software reuse tasks and how well development online social networks help answer those questions. To fill the gap, we report an empirical study involving 20 biomedical software developers performing reuse tasks. A key contribution of our study is the discovery of 31 questions needed to be addressed, which we further classify into 5 categories along a software-architecture-centric and problem-domain-centric spectrum. Our study further provides evidence for the positive effect of social network information on pragmatic reuse tasks. Our work can lead to enhanced tool support so as to improve biomedical software reuse in practice.

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This research is partially supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Award CCF-1350487) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Fund No. 61375053).

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  1. Department of EECS, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA

    Xiaoyu Jin, Charu Khatwani & Nan Niu

  2. Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA

    Michael Wagner

  3. Head of Software Architecture, Roche Diagnostics, 6343, Rotkreuz, Switzerland

    Juha Savolainen

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Jin, X., Khatwani, C., Niu, N., Wagner, M., Savolainen, J. (2016). Pragmatic Software Reuse in Bioinformatics: How Can Social Network Information Help?. In: Kapitsaki, G., Santana de Almeida, E. (eds) Software Reuse: Bridging with Social-Awareness. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9679. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35122-3_17

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