Effort, co-operation and co-ordination in an open source software project: GNOME

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-42

  Koch, Stefan ^a   Schneider, Georg ^a,b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Case study; Effort estimation; Open source software; Software development; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

NONBIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036110882     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.2002.00110.x     Document Type: Review

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