Software evolution in open source projects - A large-scale investigation

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 361-382

  Koch, Stefan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Open source; Software evolution; Software repository mining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE TESTING;

EMPIRICAL STUDY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE REPOSITORY MINING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 37749029748     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.348     Document Type: Article

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