Antecedents of open source software defects: A data mining approach to model formulation, validation and testing

Information Technology and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 235-251

  Raja, Uzma ^a   Tretter, Marietta J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Model building; Open source software; Project performance; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149094608     PISSN: 1385951X     EISSN: 15737667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10799-009-0062-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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