Requirements acquisition in open source development: Firefox 2.0

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 275, Issue , 2008, Pages 69-79

  Noll, John ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; Open source; Requirements elicitation; Software development

Indexed keywords

FIREFOX WEB BROWSER; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE PRODUCTS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCES; REQUIREMENTS ACQUISITION; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INNOVATION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 47849098570     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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