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Open source software: Lessons from and for software engineering

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Abstract

Despite initial suggestions to the contrary, open source software projects exhibit many of the fundamental tenets of software engineering. Likewise, the existence of category-killer apps suggests that conventional software engineering can draw some lessons from OSS.

Original languageEnglish
Pages25-30
Number of pages6
Volume44
No.10
Specialist publicationComputer
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2011

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

  • Global software development
  • Inner source
  • Open innovation
  • Open source software
  • Software engineering
  • Time-based release management

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