We review the empirical research on Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS)
development and assess the state of the literature. We develop a framework for organizing …

The open source movement has grown steadily and matured in recent years, and this
growth has been mirrored by a rise in open source related research. The objective of this …

Organizations build strategic alliances with other firms with the intent of tapping into partners'
resources and capturing long-term value from these relationships. Such partnerships are …

We collected bug tracking data from a few popular open source projects and investigated
the time related bug reporting patterns from them. The results indicate that along its …

Open source software (oss), the origins of which can be traced back to the 1950s, is software
distributed with a license that allows access to its source code, free redistribution, the …

Traditionally, research on quality attributes was either kept under wraps within the
organization that performed it, or carried out by outsiders using narrow, black-box …

CONTEXT: Software quality is considered to be one of the most important concerns of
software production teams. Additionally, design patterns are documented solutions to …

Software license is a legal instrument governing the usage or redistribution of copyright-
protected software. License analysis is an elaborate undertaking, especially in case of large …

Knowledge management is an overarching idea with a large potential impact on knowledge-
intensive work such as software engineering. What do we know about these approaches …

This paper empirically investigates the relationships between 15 design metrics and
maintainability of 148 Java open source software. The results show that size and complexity …