Understanding requirements for open source software

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 14 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 467-494

  Scacchi, Walt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Decentralized software development; Empirical studies; Open source software; Requirements process

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ARTIFACTS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OSS SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING PROCESS; REQUIREMENTS PROCESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84870783134     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92966-6_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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