http://www.bibsonomy.org/burst/user/neilernst/ossBibSonomy BuRST Feed for /user/neilernst/oss2008-07-21T01:29:56+02:00Welcome to IEEE Xplore 2.0: Understanding the requirements for developing open source softwaresystemshttp://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2888fa5f167be9bd60a39c47ee37d2cfd/neilernstneilernst2007-10-24T21:36:45+02:00requirements oss evolution <span style="color:#555555;">Walt <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Scacchi">Scacchi</a> </span><em>IET Software</em><em>149(1):24-39</em>(<em>2002</em>)Wed Oct 24 21:36:45 CEST 2007IET Software124-39Understanding the requirements for developing open source softwaresystems1492002requirements oss evolution Presents an initial set of findings from an empirical study of social processes, technical system configurations, organisational contexts and interrelationships that give rise to open software. The focus is directed at understanding the requirements for open software development efforts, and how the development of these requirements differs from those traditional to software engineering and requirements engineering. Four open software development communities are described, examined and compared to help discover what these differences may be. Eight kinds of software informalisms are found to play a critical role in the elicitation, analysis, specification, validation and management of requirements for developing open software systems. Subsequently, understanding the roles these software informalisms take in a new formulation of the requirements development process for open source software is the focus of the study. This focus enables the consideration of a reformulation of the requirements engineering process and its associated artefacts, or (in)formalisms, to better account for the requirements for developing open source software systemsAO Evolution chapter short paperhttp://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2098640d29eb4ad3256e0401b45936031/neilernstneilernst2007-10-23T22:45:10+02:00evolution oss could-read <span style="color:#555555;">Walt <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Scacchi">Scacchi</a> and Joseph <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Feller">Feller</a> and Brian <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Fitzgerald">Fitzgerald</a> and Scott <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Hissam">Hissam</a> and Karim <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Lakhani">Lakhani</a> </span><em>Software Process: Improvement and Practice</em><em>11(2):95 --105</em><em>March/April2006. </em>Tue Oct 23 22:45:10 CEST 2007Software Process: Improvement and PracticeMarch/April295 --105Understanding Free/Open Source Software Development Processes112006evolution oss could-read This article introduces a special issue of Software Process – Improvement and Practice focusing on processes found in free or open source software development (F/OSSD) projects. It seeks to provide a background overview of research in this area through a review of selected empirical studies of F/OSSD processes. The results and findings from a survey of empirical studies of F/OSSD give rise to an interesting variety of opportunities and challenges for understanding these processes, which are identified along the way. Overall, what becomes clear is that studies of F/OSSD processes reveal a more diverse set of different types of processes than have typically been examined in conventional software development projects. The articles in this special issue further advance understanding of what processes characterize and shape F/OSSDhttp://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f06527485cfde39b213c63ec5e5606ae/neilernstneilernst2007-10-23T21:06:59+02:00quality release OSS <span style="color:#555555;">Martin <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Michlmayr">Michlmayr</a> </span><em>University of Cambridge, </em><em>Cambridge, UK, </em>(<em>2007</em>)Tue Oct 23 21:06:59 CEST 2007Cambridge, UKQuality Improvement in Volunteer Free and Open Source Software Projects: Exploring the Impact of Release Management2007quality release OSS Free and open source software has had a major impact on the computer industry since the late 1990s and has changed the way software is perceived, developed and deployed in many areas. Free and open source software, or FOSS, is typically developed in a collaborative fashion and the majority of contributors are volunteers. Even though this collaborative form of development has produced a significant body of software, the development process is often described as unstructured and unorganized. This dissertation studies the FOSS phenomenon from a quality perspective and investigates where improvements to the development process are possible. In particular, the focus is on release management since this is concerned with the delivery of a high quality product to end-users. This research has identified considerable interest amongst the FOSS community in a novel release management strategy, time based releases. In contrast to traditional development which is feature-driven, time based releases use time rather than features as the criterion for the creation of a new release. Releases are made after a specific interval, and new features that have been completed and sufficiently tested since the last release are included in the new version. This dissertation explores why, and under which circumstances, the time based release strategy is a viable alternative to feature-driven development and discusses factors that influence a successful implementation of this release strategy. It is argued that this release strategy acts as a coordination mechanism in large volunteer projects that are geographically dispersed. The time based release strategy allows a more controlled development and release process in projects which have little control of their contributors and therefore contributes to the quality of the output.