The focus of this chapter is to review what is known about free and open source software
development (FOSSD) work practices, development processes, project and community …

Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …

In software development, resources for quality assurance are limited by time and by cost. In
order to allocate resources effectively, managers need to rely on their experience backed by …

Abstract Open Source Software (OSS) development is often characterized as a
fundamentally new way to develop software. Past analyses and discussions, however, have …

This article investigates the public debate over proposed US legislation designed to give
prosecutors and copyright holders new tools to pursue suspected online copyright …

Sustained participation by contributors in opensource software is critical to the survival of
open-source projects and can provide career advancement benefits to individual …

Recent years have witnessed a surge in self-organizing voluntary teams collaborating
online to produce goods and services. Motivated by this phenomenon, this research …

This paper focuses on the current state of knowledge in the field of software development
methodologies. It aims to set the stage for the formalization of a software development …

Since the turn of the century, open source software has triggered a vast volume of research.
In this essay, based on a brief review of selected work, we show that research in many …

Developer social networks (DSNs) are a tool for the analysis of community structures and
collaborations between developers in software projects and software ecosystems. Within …