A study of open source software evolution data using qualitative simulation

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 287-300

  Smith, Neil ^a   Capiluppi, Andrea ^b   Ramil, Juan F ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Open source software; Qualitative abstraction and simulation; Software evolution; Software maintenance; Software process simulation modelling; Theory of software evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; QUALITATIVE ABSTRACTION AND SIMULATION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE PROCESS SIMULATION MODELLING; THEORY OF SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 25444506167     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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