A systematic review of studies of open source software evolution

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 356-365

  Breivold, Hongyu Pei ^a   Chauhan, Muhammad Aufeef ^b   Babar, Muhammad Ali ^c  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Evolvability; Open source software; Software evolution; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION PROCESS; EVOLVABILITY; MULTI-STEP; OPEN SOURCE PARADIGM; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; RESEARCH TOPICS; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SELECTION PROCESS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951740226     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2010.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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