Free/open source software development: Recent research results and emerging opportunities

ESEC/FSE'07: 6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering - Companion Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 459-468

  Scacchi, Walt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Free software; Open source software; Socio technical relationships; Software development practices

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOCIO-TECHNICAL RELATIONSHIPS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 37849023873     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1295014.1295019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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