One-off events? An empirical study of hackathon code creation and reuse.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Hackathons have become popular events for teams to collaborate on projects and develop software prototypes. Most existing research focuses on activities during an event with limited attention to the evolution of the hackathon code.

Objective

We aim to understand the evolution of code used in and created during hackathon events, with a particular focus on the code blobs, specifically, how frequently hackathon teams reuse pre-existing code, how much new code they develop, if that code gets reused afterwards, and what factors affect reuse.

Method

We collected information about 22,183 hackathon projects from Devpost and obtained related code blobs, authors, project characteristics, original author, code creation time, language, and size information from World of C

SUBMITTER: Mahmoud ASI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9489595 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature