Evolution and growth in large libre software projects

International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE)

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 165-174

  Robles, Gregorio ^a   Amor, Juan Jose ^a   Gonzalez Barahona, Jesus M ^a   Herraiz, Israel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; USER INTERFACES;

LIBRE SOFTWARE KERNELS; LINUX KERNEL; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33846487973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWPSE.2005.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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