Open source software development represents a fundamentally new concept in the field of software engineering. Open source development and delivery occurs over the Internet. Developers are not confined to a geographic area. They work voluntarily on a project of their choice. As new requirements emerge, the software is enhanced by the user/developers. In this paper we show a comparative study of ...

For more than thirty years, it has been claimed that a way to improve software developers' productivity and software quality is to focus on people and to provide incentives to make developers satisfied and happy. This claim has rarely been verified in software engineering research, which faces an additional challenge in comparison to more traditional engineering fields: software development is ...

Source control systems permit developers to attach a free form message to every committed change. The content of these change messages is rarely investigated and little is known about their use by developers while they maintain their code. We present the results of a survey we conducted with professional software developers. The purpose of this survey was to investigate how developers make use ...

10 A successful software project is the result of a complex process involving, above all, people. Developers are the key factors for the success of a software development process, not merely as executors of tasks, but as protagonists and core of the whole development process. This paper investigates social aspects among developers working on software projects developed with the support of Agile...

The FASD study gathered 1330 answers about fun and software development from open source developers as well as 114 answers from programmers working in commercial software projects. The analysis of these data proves that fun plays an important role when software developers decide to get engaged in an open source project. Moreover, the comparison of the answers gives evidence for the hypothesis t...

A growing segment of the software market is On-Demand Software Aggregators (ODSAs): firms that provide a platform for many developers to provide preconfigured, pre-integrated functionality over the internet. These aggregators act as electronic marketplaces for software, intermediating between developers and customers, and they supplement their own development efforts with those of other Indepen...

Software Engineering Australia and the Software Quality Institute undertook a survey in 1999 to evaluate the level of adoption of best practice by software developers in Queensland. This paper explains how the survey evaluated the software processes in use and then describes a Process Improvement Program undertaken to measure the capability of software developers, based on the Software Process ...

Research in knowledge-based software engineering has led to advances in the ability to specify and automatically generate software. Advances in the support of upstream activities have focussed on assisting software developers. We examine the possibility of extending computer-based support in the software development process to allow end users to participate, providing feedback directly to devel...

Generally speaking, Electronic Book can be defined as a multimedia software product synthesizing multimedia such as text, voice, audio effect, image, animation and video into a scenario where interaction can be made with the readers during the acting process. An e-book is composed of 3 parts: (1)programming design; (2)script design; (3)art and audio effect design. Producing an e-book is quite l...

Software reliability growth models with confidence intervals (SRGMs) are often utilized in software industry in that they provide useful information for software developers to decide the optimal software release time and to refine the quality of software testing tasks. Most SRGMs, nonetheless, do not have transparent explanations for the variance estimation of cumulative software errors. They m...