Effort estimation of FLOSS projects: A study of the Linux kernel

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-88

  Capiluppi, Andrea ^a   Izquierdo Cortázar, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complexity; Effort estimation; Effort models; Mining software repositories; Open source software

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; CODE COMPLEXITY; COMMUNITY IS; COMPLEXITY; CROSS-CUTTING; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ESTIMATION MODELS; FLOSS PROJECTS; KEYPOINTS; LINUX KERNEL; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLES; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SPECIFIC TIME; TIME SLOTS;

INDUSTRY;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84872319608     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-011-9191-7     Document Type: Article

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