Open source software peer review practices: A case study of the apache server

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 541-550

  Rigby, Peter C ^a   German, Daniel M ^a   Storey, Margaret Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inspection; Mining soft ware repositories (email); Open source software; Peer review

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; INSPECTION; MINING;

APACHE SERVERS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS; MINING SOFT-WARE REPOSITORIES (EMAIL); OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PEER REVIEW; TECHNIQUES USED; VERSION CONTROLS;

INSPECTION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

APACHE SERVER; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS; MINING SOFTWARE(EMAIL); OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PEER REVIEW; TECHNIQUES USED; VERSION CONTROL;

EID: 57349113048     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1368088.1368162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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