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ASWEC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirically-Based Criterion for Determining the Success of an Open-Source Project
In order to determine a success criterion for open-source software projects, we analyzed 122,205 projects in the SourceForge database. There were 80,597 projects with no downloads...
Dror G. Feitelson, Gillian Z. Heller, Stephen R. S...
CSEE
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Will Johnny/Joanie Make a Good Software Engineer? Are Course Grades Showing the Whole Picture?
Predicting future success of students as software engineers is an open research area. We posit that current grading means do not capture all the information that may predict wheth...
Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Elizabeth Ashle...
ISESE
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An empirical evaluation of a testing and debugging methodology for Excel
Spreadsheets are one of the most commonly used types of programs in the world, and it is important that they be sufficiently dependable. To help end users who create spreadsheets ...
Jeffrey Carver, Marc Fisher II, Gregg Rothermel
ICSE
2000
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Requirements engineering: a roadmap
This paper presents an overview of the field of software systems requirements engineering (RE). It describes the main areas of RE practice, and highlights some key open research i...
Bashar Nuseibeh, Steve M. Easterbrook
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