Understanding How Companies Interact with Free Software Communities

When free, open source software development communities work with companies that use their output, it's especially important for both parties to understand how this collaboration is performing. The use of data analytics techniques on software development repositories can improve factual knowled...

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Published in:IEEE software 2013-09, Vol.30 (5), p.38-45
Main Authors: Gonzalez-Barahona, J. M., Izquierdo-Cortazar, D., Maffulli, S., Robles, G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Communities
Competition
Computer programs
computing milieu
Electronic mail
Freeware
Joining
Maintenance
Mathematical analysis
measurement
Open source software
process metrics
Software
Software analytics
Software development
Software engineering
Software industry
Software measurement
Statistics
Studies
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Summary:When free, open source software development communities work with companies that use their output, it's especially important for both parties to understand how this collaboration is performing. The use of data analytics techniques on software development repositories can improve factual knowledge about performance metrics.
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2013.95