The onion has cancer: Some social network analysis visualizations of open source project communication

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5-10

  Oezbek, Christopher ^a   Prechelt, Lutz ^a   Thiel, Florian ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

communication structure; open source process; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCES; SINGLE DEFECT; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

EID: 77955799797     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1833272.1833274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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