Effort modeling and programmer participation in open source software projects

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 345-355

  Koch, Stefan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Effort estimation; Open source; Software repository mining

Indexed keywords

LIFE CYCLE; OPEN SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CASE STUDIES; DECISION MAKERS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EFFORT ESTIMATIONS; LARGE DATA SETS; LINES OF CODES; OPEN SOURCE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; PRODUCT LIFE CYCLES; RAYLEIGH; SOFTWARE REPOSITORY MINING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

DATA MINING; DATA SET; MODELING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 56249089320     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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