Exploring the maintenance process through the defect management in the open source projects - four case studies

2006 International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 53-

  Lintula, Heli ^a   Koponen, Timo ^a   Hotti, Virpi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bug tracking; Defect life cycle; Evaluation; Issue tracking; Open source

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DUPLICATES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; VERSION MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 38849143879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSEA.2006.261309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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