Understanding how companies interact with free software communities

IEEE Software

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 38-45

  Gonzalez Barahona, Jesus M ^a   Izquierdo Cortazar, Daniel ^b   Maffulli, Stefano ^b   Robles, Gregorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b Bitergia ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

computing milieu; measurement; process metrics; software analytics; software engineering; statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING MILIEU; DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY; FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE; FREE SOFTWARE; MAINTENANCE EFFORTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS METRICS;

MEASUREMENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84884145750     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2013.95     Document Type: Article

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