Quality improvement in volunteer free software projects: Exploring the impact of release management

OSS 2005 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Open Source Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 309-310

  Michlmayr, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free software; Open source; Process improvement; Quality assurance; Release management; Volunteer projects

Indexed keywords

FREE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; RELEASE MANAGEMENT; VOLUNTEER PROJECTS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950498993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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