Coordination implications of software coupling in Open Source projects

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 319 AICT, Issue , 2010, Pages 314-321

  Amrit, Chintan ^a   Van Hillegersberg, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clustered cost; Coordination; Open Source; Propagation cost; Software coupling

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; COORDINATION; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE COUPLING; SOFTWARE MODULARITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 80051993239     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13244-5_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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