Evolution Patterns of Open-Source Software Systems and Communities

International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 76-85

  Nakakoji, Kumiyo ^a,b,c   Yamamoto, Yasuhiro ^b,d   Nishinaka, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kishida, Kouichi ^a   Ye, Yunwen ^a,e  

^a SRA KTL Tokyo   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Open Source Software (OSS); Open Source Software community; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ITERATIVE METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CASE STUDY; OPEN-SOUCE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS); SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038282265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/512054.512055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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