Characterizing key developers: A case study with apache ant

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7493 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 97-112

  Oliva, Gustavo A ^a   Santana, Francisco W ^b   De Oliveira, Kleverton C M ^b   De Souza, Cleidson R B ^b,c   Gerosa, Marco A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO VALE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

case study; collaboration; mining software repositories; socio technical analysis; software architecture

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; DEVELOPMENT TASKS; MAILING LISTS; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOTECHNICAL; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84867134786     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33284-5_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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