A Requirements-Based Analysis of Success in Open- Source Software Development Projects

17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Vlas, Radu ^a   Vlas, Cristina ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Omnis Prime

Author keywords

Open source; patterns; project success; requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; LIFE CYCLE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN-SOURCE; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PATTERN; PROJECT SUCCESS; REQUIREMENT ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 84897702442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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