Multi-modal modeling, analysis, and validation of open source software development processes

Walt Scacchi, Chris Jensen, John Noll, Margaret Elliott

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Abstract

Understanding the context, structure, activities, and content of software development processes found in practice has been and remains a challenging problem. In the world of free/open source software development, discovering and understanding what processes are used in particular projects is important in determining how they are similar to or different from those advocated by the software engineering community. Prior studies have revealed that development processes in F/OSSD projects are different in a number of ways. In this paper, we describe how a variety of modeling perspectives and techniques are used to elicit, analyze, and validate software development processes found in F/OSSD projects, with examples drawn from studies of the software requirements process found in the NetBeans.org project.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntegrated Approaches in Information Technology and Web Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationAdvancing Organizational Knowledge Sharing
PublisherIGI Global
Pages51-65
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9781605664187
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes

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