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T1 Studying the evolution of libre software projects using publicly available data
A1 Matellán Olivera, Vicente
A2 Arquitectura y Tecnologia de Computadores
K1 Informática
K1 Open Source
K1 Software
K1 Proyectos
K1 Datos públicos
AB Libre software projects offer abundant information aboutthemselves in publicly available storages (source codesnapshots, CVS repositories, etc), which are a good sourceof quantitative data about the project itself, and the softwareit produces. The retrieval (and partially the analysis) of allthose data can be automated, following a simple methodologyaimed at characterizing the evolution of the project.Since the base information is public, and the tools used arelibre and readily available, other groups can easily reproduceand review the results. Since the characterization offerssome insight on the details of the project, it can be usedas the basis for qualitative analysis (including correlationsand comparative studies). In some cases, this methodologycould also be used for proprietary software (although usuallylosing the benefits of peer review). This approach isshown, as an example, applied to MONO, a libre softwareproject implementing parts of the .NET framework
YR 2012
FD 2012-07-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10612/1796
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10612/1796
NO 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, May 3-11, 2003, Portland, Oregon
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 18-abr-2024