1.1 Systematic literature review: Risks in OSS adoption

We conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) on risks in OSS adoption, with various objectives: firstly, to describe the state of the art in the field, to understand the main research problems, the difficulties, the limitations of current approaches and open issues; secondly, to study the terminology used in the field, to structure, categorize and detail the problem domain, i.e. risks, risk measures, mitigation strategies, and the peculiar role of the OSS development and business model in OSS component adoption; and lastly, to contribute to the discovery of the initial requirements for a new risk analysis process, with a preliminary screening of the techniques used for data gathering, for giving evidence to claims and for the evaluation of the proposed approaches, as an indicator for their reliability and maturity, as a potential source for data, and as a guide for the evaluation of own approaches.