Does complexity matter? The impact of change in structural complexity on software maintenance and new developers' contributions in open source software;La complexité importe-t-elle? L'impact d'un changement de complexité structurelle sur la maintenance des logiciels et sur les contributions nouvelles des développeurs de logiciels libres

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Midha, Vishal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Developers Contribution; Open Source Software; Software Maintenance; Structural Complexity

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPERS CONTRIBUTION; MODEL VALIDATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; RESEARCH PAPERS; SOURCEFORGE; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84870966903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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