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SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Validity concerns in software engineering research
Empirical studies that use software repository artifacts have become popular in the last decade due to the ready availability of open source project archives. In this paper, we su...
Hyrum K. Wright, Miryung Kim, Dewayne E. Perry
OSS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: An Empirical Study of the Lifecycle of Volunteer Community Projects
Some free software and open source projects have been extremely successful in the past. The success of a project is often related to the number of developers it can attract: a larg...
Andrea Capiluppi, Martin Michlmayr
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
The future of research in free/open source software development
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) development is not the same an Software Engineering (SE). Why this is so is unclear and open to various interpretations. Both address the challeng...
Walt Scacchi
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Usability and free/libre/open source software SIG: HCI expertise and design rationale
The usability of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) is a new challenge for HCI professionals. Although HCI professionals are working on usability issues in FLOSS, the CHI com...
Paula M. Bach, Bryan Kirschner, John M. Carroll
JSS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Understanding knowledge sharing activities in free/open source software projects: An empirical study
Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects are people-oriented and knowledge intensive software development environments. Many researchers focused on mailing lists to study coding...
Sulayman K. Sowe, Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angel...