Understanding Free/Open Source Software Development Processes Export

@article{citeulike:715466, abstract = {This article introduces a special issue of Software Process - Improvement and Practice focusing on processes found in free or open source software development (F/OSSD) projects. It seeks to provide a background overview of research in this area through a review of selected empirical studies of F/OSSD processes. The results and findings from a survey of empirical studies of F/OSSD give rise to an interesting variety of opportunities and challenges for understanding these processes, which are identified along the way. Overall, what becomes clear is that studies of F/OSSD processes reveal a more diverse set of different types of processes than have typically been examined in conventional software development projects. The articles in this special issue further advance understanding of what processes characterize and shape F/OSSD. Copyright {\copyright} 2006 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.}, address = {Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine, USA; Business Information Systems, University College Cork, Ireland; Computer Science and Information Systems, Limerick University, Ireland; Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA; Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA}, author = {Scacchi, Walt and Feller, Joseph and Fitzgerald, Brian and Hissam, Scott and Lakhani, Karim}, citeulike-article-id = {715466}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spip.255}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112610591/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/spip.255}, journal = {Software Process: Improvement and Practice}, keywords = {additional, collaboration, online, participation, reading, sep, trc-lab}, number = {2}, pages = {95--105}, posted-at = {2006-09-05 10:44:48}, priority = {0}, title = {Understanding Free/Open Source Software Development Processes}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spip.255}, volume = {11}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:715466 L3 - citeulike-article-id:715466 N2 - This article introduces a special issue of Software Process - Improvement and Practice focusing on processes found in free or open source software development (F/OSSD) projects. It seeks to provide a background overview of research in this area through a review of selected empirical studies of F/OSSD processes. The results and findings from a survey of empirical studies of F/OSSD give rise to an interesting variety of opportunities and challenges for understanding these processes, which are identified along the way. Overall, what becomes clear is that studies of F/OSSD processes reveal a more diverse set of different types of processes than have typically been examined in conventional software development projects. The articles in this special issue further advance understanding of what processes characterize and shape F/OSSD. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. IS - 2 JF - Software Process: Improvement and Practice AD - Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine, USA; Business Information Systems, University College Cork, Ireland; Computer Science and Information Systems, Limerick University, Ireland; Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA; Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA EP - 105 TI - Understanding Free/Open Source Software Development Processes VL - 11 SP - 95 KW - additional KW - collaboration KW - online KW - participation KW - reading KW - sep KW - trc-lab AU - Scacchi, Walt AU - Feller, Joseph AU - Fitzgerald, Brian AU - Hissam, Scott AU - Lakhani, Karim PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spip.255 ER -