Quality practices and problems in free software projects

OSS 2005 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Open Source Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 24-28

  Michlmayr, Martin ^a   Hunt, Francis ^a   Probert, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free software; Open source; Quality assurance; Quality improvement; Quality practices

Indexed keywords

CLOSED SOURCE SOFTWARES; CURRENT STATUS; DEVELOPMENT MODEL; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; FREE SOFTWARE; HIGH QUALITY; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCES; PEER REVIEW; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY PRACTICE; QUALITY PROBLEMS; QUALITY PROCESS;

OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 84872900030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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