Observations on patterns of development in open source software projects

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, WOSSE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Stewart, Katherine J ^a   Darcy, David P ^a   Daniel, Sherae L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Open source software; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CATEGORIZATION OF PROJECTS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT; RELEASE CYCLES; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84979776119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083258.1083272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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