The impact of project licence and operating system on the effectiveness of the defect-fixing process in open source software projects

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 413-424

  Ghapanchi, Amir Hossein ^a   Aurum, Aybuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Defect fixing effectiveness; Open source software; Operating system; OSS; OSS licence

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052678087     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2011.042398     Document Type: Review

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