Open Source Software Projects' Attractiveness, Activeness, and Efficiency as a Path to Software Quality: an Empirical Evaluation of Their Relationships and Causes

.......................................................................................................... i DEDICATION ....................................................................................................... iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ....................................................................................... iv LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................. vi LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................................................. vii CHAPTERS CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION ....................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 2 – LITERATURE REVIEW AND MODEL DEVELOPMENT ........... 9 CHAPTER 3 – METHODS ............................................................................... 38 CHAPTER 4 – DATA DESCRIPTION AND STATISTICAL RESULTS ............ 65 CHAPTER 5 – CONCLUSIONS, DISCUSSIONS AND FINAL REMARKS.... 105 REFERENCES ................................................................................................. 119 APPENDICIES APPENDIX A – SOURCEFORGE.NET PARTIAL E-R DIAGRAM................. 126 APPENDIX B – CAPTURING THE EFFECTS OF LICENSE TYPE .............. 127 APPENDIX C – COVARIANCE MATRICES (WITHOUT MODERATOR) ...... 128 APPENDIX D – COVARIANCE MATRICES (MODERATION TEST) ............ 140 APPENDIX E – MODERATION CONSTRAINTS (LAGRANGE TEST) ......... 142 VITA ................................................................................................................. 143