Microblogging in open source software development: The case of drupal and twitter

IEEE Software

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 72-80

  Wang, Xiaofeng ^a   Kuzmickaja, Ilona ^a   Stol, Klaas Jan ^b   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^a   Fitzgerald, Brian ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b LERO Irish Software Engineering Research Centre   (Italy)

Author keywords

communication; crowdsourcing; Drupal; microblogging; open source software development; pervasive computing; social media; software engineering; Twitter

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CROWDSOURCING; DRUPAL; MICROBLOGGING; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84898016485     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2013.98     Document Type: Article

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