An empirical study on software development with open source components in the Chinese software industry

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-100

  Chen, Weibing ^a   Li, Jingyue ^b   Ma, Jianqiang ^b   Conradi, Reidar ^b   Ji, Junzhong ^a   Liu, Chunnian ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Component based software engineering; Empirical study; Open source software component

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; OPEN SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

COMPONENT INTEGRATION; LICENSING COMPLIANCE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 40249107544     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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