Open source software: Lessons from and for software engineering

Brian Fitzgerald

doi:10.1109/MC.2011.266

Open source software: Lessons from and for software engineering

Brian Fitzgerald

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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 language	English
Pages	25-30
Number of pages	6
Volume	44
No.	10
Specialist publication	Computer
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2011.266
Publication status	Published - Oct 2011

Keywords

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

UN SDGs

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

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