Organizational learning in open-source software projects: An analysis of debugging data

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 485-493

  Huntley, Christopher L ^a  

^a FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning curve; Open source software; Organizational learning; Software debugging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WEB BROWSERS;

ONLINE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; SOFTWARE DEBUGGING;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 0442295634     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2003.820136     Document Type: Article

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