Abstract

Web-based open source software development (OSSD) communities provide interesting and unique opportunities for software process modeling and simulation. Whereas most studies focus on analyzing processes in a single organization, we focus on modeling software development processes both within and across three distinct but related communities: Mozilla, a Web information artifact consumer; the Apache HTTP server that handles the transactions of Web information artifacts to consumers such as the Mozilla browser; and NetBeans, an integrated development environment (IDE) for creating Web information artifacts. In this paper, we look at the process relationships between these communities as components of a Web information infrastructure. We look at expressive and comparative techniques for modeling such processes that facilitate and enhance understanding of the software development techniques utilized by their respective communities and the collective infrastructure in creating them.

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