Quality Improvement in Volunteer Free and Open Source Software Projects – Exploring the Impact of Release Management

Quality Improvement in Volunteer Free and Open Source Software Projects – Exploring the Impact of Release Management (2007)

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TITLE	Quality Improvement in Volunteer Free and Open Source Software Projects – Exploring the Impact of Release Management	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Martin Michlmayr	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	; King’s College; Institute for Manufacturing; University of Cambridge	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Martin Michlmayr	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	; King’s College; Institute for Manufacturing; University of Cambridge	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	Free and open source software has had a major impact on the computer industry since the late 1990s and has changed the way software is perceived, developed and deployed in many areas. Free and open source software, or FOSS, is typically developed in a collaborative fashion and the majority of contributors are volunteers. Even though this collaborative form of develop-ment has produced a significant body of software, the development process is often described as unstructured and unorganized. This dissertation studies the FOSS phenomenon from a quality perspective and investigates where im-provements to the development process are possible. In particular, the focus is on release management since this is concerned with the delivery of a high quality product to end-users. This research has identified considerable interest amongst the FOSS commu-nity in a novel release management strategy, time based releases. In contrast to traditional development which is feature-driven, time based releases use time rather than features as the criterion for the creation of a new release. Releases	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	2007	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
VENUE TYPE	TECHREPORT	INFERENCE
TECH	PhD thesis	INFERENCE
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