TY - GEN
T1 - Requirements acquisition in open source development
T2 - Firefox 2.0
AU - Noll, John
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Open Source Software Development appears to depart radically from conventional notions of software engineering. In particular, requirements for Open Source projects seem to be asserted rather than elicited. This paper examines features of the latest major release of the Firefox web browser in attempt to understand how prevalent this phenomenon is. Using archives of mailing lists and issue tracking databases, these features were traced from first mention to release, to determine the process by which requirements are proposed, adopted, and implemented in Firefox. The results confirm the importance of user participation as developers of open source products.
AB - Open Source Software Development appears to depart radically from conventional notions of software engineering. In particular, requirements for Open Source projects seem to be asserted rather than elicited. This paper examines features of the latest major release of the Firefox web browser in attempt to understand how prevalent this phenomenon is. Using archives of mailing lists and issue tracking databases, these features were traced from first mention to release, to determine the process by which requirements are proposed, adopted, and implemented in Firefox. The results confirm the importance of user participation as developers of open source products.
KW - Innovation
KW - Open source
KW - Requirements elicitation
KW - Software development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=47849098570&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_6
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:47849098570
SN - 9780387096834
T3 - IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
SP - 69
EP - 79
BT - Open Source Development, Communities and Quality
A2 - Russo, Barbara
A2 - Succi, Giancarlo
A2 - Damiani, Ernesto
A2 - Hissam, Scott
A2 - Lundell, Björn
ER -