Open source software maintenance process framework

Applying a Reference Framework to Open Source Software Process Discovery

The successes of open source software development have inspired commercial organizations to adopt similar techniques in hopes of improving their own processes without regard to the software process context that provided this success. This paper describes a reference framework for software process discovery in open source software development communities that provides this context. The reference...

Fault-Proneness of Open Source Software: Exploring its Relations to Internal Software Quality and Maintenance Process

The goal of this study is to explore how fault-proneness of open source software (OSS) could be explained in terms of internal quality attributes and maintenance process metrics. We reviewed earlier studies and performed a multiple case study of eight Java-based projects based on data available in the Source Forge repository. Overall, we studied 342 releases of those systems. As is usual, softw...

Open Source Software Development Process Modeling

This chapter draws attention to software process modeling for open source software development. It proposes a three-layered open source software development process model. Its ‘definitional’ and ‘generic’ levels specify the common features of all fully-fledged open source projects. Its ‘specific’ level allows to describe fine-grained process model fragments characteristic of different open sour...

Process Scenarios in Open Source Software Certification

Certification of Open Source Software (OSS) presents inherent trade-offs due to the necessity of precisely identifying both a product and an independent certification agent, and on the other of maintain the peculiar, valuable OSS characteristic of being available to an unlimited multiplicity of actors for trial, use and change. This is an intriguing challenge, usually solved by removing from th...

Indirectly predicting the maintenance effort of open-source software