The impact of social networking on software design quality and development effort in open source projects;L'impact des réseaux sociaux sur la qualité de la conception logicielle et l'effort de développement dans les projets de logiciels libres

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Barbagallo, Donato ^a   Francalanci, Chiara ^a   Merlo, Francesco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Network centrality metrics; Open source; Social networks; Software design quality; Software development effort

Indexed keywords

DESIGN QUALITY; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCES; PROJECT SUCCESS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE DESIGN QUALITY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MANAGERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870970367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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