Socio-technical developer networks: Should we trust our measurements?

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 281-290

  Meneely, Andrew ^a   Williams, Laurie ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

developer network; developers; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPER NETWORK; DEVELOPERS; DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; LINUX KERNEL; MODELING NETWORKS; ONLINE SURVEYS; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROTOCOL ANALYZERS; QUALITY SOFTWARE; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIO-TECHNICAL RELATIONSHIPS; SOCIOTECHNICAL; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; WIRESHARK;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SURVEYS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79959866132     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985793.1985832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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