Open Source Software Development: Exploring Research Perspectives

Kanwal, Preet; Gupta, Anu; Singla, R. K.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3558-7_52

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“…Developers in FLOSS project teams work by source code sharing and rigorous peer reviewing in cooperative and distributed social environments which result in rapid innovative development and maintenance of projects [2]. It has been demonstrated that a truly global distribution of members can successfully achieve consistent round-the-clock processes without apparent ill effects on team productivity or the quality of the software [3].…”

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“…A FLOSS project team is far from static but changing constantly, and such frequent role transformations make the team's social structure evolve continually [2]. There are many factors that prompt a developer to change his or her role [1], such as the improvement of his or her programming skills, the evolution of his or her technical interests, the degree of trustworthiness and positive feedback he or she gains from the core team members, etc [7] [8].…”

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Role Distribution and Transformation in Open Source Software Project Teams

Wang

Perry

2015

2015 Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)

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In Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS) project teams, different roles make different types of contributions to the projects, and it has been demonstrated that keeping a rational role distribution is of great significance to the potential growth and expansion of the projects. To identify the underlying patterns of team structures and role transformations, we perform an empirical study on 89 popular GitHub projects. The distribution of 9 roles and 66 types of role transformations are analyzed. Four clusters of FLOSS projects are identified in terms of the distinct characteristics on the proportion of 9 roles (i.e., the team structure) and the frequency of occurrence, duration, and Times of Activeness (ToA) of role transformations. This study would help FLOSS project coordinator have a deeper understanding of dynamic role distributions and role transformations in their teams, so as to take initiatives to improve their team structures.

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Role Distribution and Transformation in Open Source Software Project Teams

Wang

Perry

2015

2015 Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)

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Sampling Process Model for Coordination and Communication in Free/Open Source Software Projects

Kanwal¹,

Gupta²,

Singla³

2014

IJCA

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The Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) development environment consists of three components: The development process, the community of software development volunteers and the coordination and communication tools. The rise and expansion of Internet make this concept of cooperative software development model a dominant force in comparison to the traditional software development. Various project hosting sites for F/OSS projects across an entire range of applications have come up offering a multitude of services for developers as well as users. Various aspects of F/OSS are being studied by researchers. Coordination and Communication become key factors in F/OSS development for information dissemination among its decentralized and geographically spread-out teams of volunteers. It becomes important to choose the right sample to study this aspect. This paper proposes a four-phase sampling process model especially suited for studies related to coordination and communication aspects in F/OSS although it can be extended to all aspects of F/OSS development with suitable changes in the parameters.

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Open Source Software Development: Exploring Research Perspectives

Cited by 2 publications

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Role Distribution and Transformation in Open Source Software Project Teams

Role Distribution and Transformation in Open Source Software Project Teams

Sampling Process Model for Coordination and Communication in Free/Open Source Software Projects

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