: Software practitioners recognise the importance of realistic estimates of effort for the successful management of software projects, the Web being no exception. Estimates are nec...
: This paper contributes to the identification and testing of factors important for the success of open source software (OSS) projects. We present an analysis of OSS communities as...
This paper discusses a potential methodological problem with empirical studies assessing project effort prediction systems. Frequently a hold-out strategy is deployed so that the ...
Abstract. This paper describes an approach to providing object persistence in object-oriented programming languages without modifying the run-time system or the language itself. By...
Projects where developers are geographically distributed and with high personnel turnover are usually considered to be hard to manage. Any organisation that successfully handles s...