Quality Improvement in Volunteer Free and Open Source Software Projects: Exploring the Impact of Release Management
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Quality Improvement in Volunteer Free Software Projects: Exploring the Impact of Release Management
Even though free software has achieved great popularity and success in recent years, there are a number of product quality challenges facing the open source development model. There is significant room for further quality improvement and one area that deserves special attention is release management. This research will identify problems with current release practices, verify possible advantages...
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