An empirical study on the structural complexity introduced by core and peripheral developers in free software projects

Proceedings - 24th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, SBES 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 21-29

  Terceiro, Antonio ^a   Rios, Luiz Romário ^a   Chavez, Christina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE TEAMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FREE SOFTWARE; HISTORICAL DATA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; REDUCING ACTIVITY; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOURCE CODES; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; VERSION CONTROL; WEB SERVERS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 79952060141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SBES.2010.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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