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Open source software development: expectations and experience from a small development project

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Open Source Software (OSS) is software that provides access to its source code in order to allow users to improve and redistribute the software. The emergence of OSS has introduced new ways to develop, test, and maintain software. While several success stories about large-scale OSS projects are reported, little research has been done on how small-scale OSS projects are managed by OSS developers. This paper reports preliminary findings from our experience with a small OSS project, while discussing differences between software processes in large- and small-scale OSS developments.

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      ACMSE '08: Proceedings of the 46th annual ACM Southeast Conference
      March 2008
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      • (2020)Open Source Software Development Process: A Systematic Review2020 IEEE 24th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC)10.1109/EDOC49727.2020.00025(135-144)Online publication date: Oct-2020
      • (2012)Differences between traditional and open source development activitiesProceedings of the 13th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement10.1007/978-3-642-31063-8_11(131-144)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2012

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