The public nature of discussion in open source projects provides a valuable resource for understanding the mechanisms of open source software development. In this paper we explore...
Final year students in the Bachelor of Computing complete an industry project where they work in teams to build an IT system for an external client. Grading projects in these circ...
Numerous studies have used historical datasets to build and validate models for estimating software development effort. Very few used a chronological split (where projects’ end ...
In spite of the overwhelming success of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) like Apache and GNU/Linux, there is a limited understanding of the processes and methodologies that speci...
Most agile projects rely heavily on good collaboration with the customer in order to achieve project goals and avoid overruns. However, the role of the customer in software projec...