TY - GEN
T1 - Requirements elicitation in open source software development
T2 - 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development, FLOSS-3, in Conjunction with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010
AU - Noll, John
AU - Liu, Wei Ming
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - A growing body of empirical research has examined large, successful open source software projects such as the Linux kernel, Apache web server, and Mozilla web browser. Do these results extend to small open source efforts involving a handful of developers? A study of the OpenEMR open source electronic medical record project was conducted, with the goal of understanding how requirements are elicited, documented, agreed, and validated in a small open source software project The results show that the majority of features are asserted by developers, based on either their personal experience, or knowledge of users' needs. Relatively few were requested directly by users. Validation and documentation took the form of informal discussions via the project's developer mailing list. These results are consistent with an earlier study of the Firefox web browser, suggesting that there is a common open source requirements approach that is independent of project size.
AB - A growing body of empirical research has examined large, successful open source software projects such as the Linux kernel, Apache web server, and Mozilla web browser. Do these results extend to small open source efforts involving a handful of developers? A study of the OpenEMR open source electronic medical record project was conducted, with the goal of understanding how requirements are elicited, documented, agreed, and validated in a small open source software project The results show that the majority of features are asserted by developers, based on either their personal experience, or knowledge of users' needs. Relatively few were requested directly by users. Validation and documentation took the form of informal discussions via the project's developer mailing list. These results are consistent with an earlier study of the Firefox web browser, suggesting that there is a common open source requirements approach that is independent of project size.
KW - electronic health record
KW - electronic medical record
KW - open source software
KW - software requirements
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955881548&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1833272.1833279
DO - 10.1145/1833272.1833279
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955881548
SN - 9781605589787
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 35
EP - 40
BT - 3rd Int. Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development, FLOSS-3, in Conj. with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010
Y2 - 8 May 2010 through 8 May 2010
ER -