Techniques and processes for improving the quality and performance of open-source software

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-176

  Porter, Adam ^a   Yilmaz, Cemal ^a   Memon, Atif M ^a   Krishna, Arvind S ^b   Schmidt, Douglas C ^b   Gokhale, Aniruddha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed continuous quality assurance; Open source software development and testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MIDDLEWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

DISTRIBUTED CONTINUOUS QUALITY ASSURANCE (DCQA); OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; PLATFORM CONFIGURATIONS; SYSTEMS INFRASTRUCTURE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33744813579     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.260     Document Type: Article

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