Key factors for adopting Inner Source

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Stol, Klaas Jan ^a   Avgeriou, Paris ^b   Babar, Muhammad Ali ^c   Lucas, Yan ^d   Fitzgerald, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d TyCloud ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Case study; Framework; Inner source; Open source development practices

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FRAMEWORK; INNER SOURCE; LARGE ORGANIZATIONS; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PHILIPS; ROLLS-ROYCE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84897993676     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 15577392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2533685     Document Type: Article

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