A Metric Based Approach for Analysis of Software Development Processes in Open Source Environment

Parminder Kaur; Hardeep Singh

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A Metric Based Approach for Analysis of Software Development Processes in Open Source Environment

Parminder Kaur, Hardeep Singh

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Open source software (OSS) is a software program whose source code is available to anyone under a license which gives them freedom to run the program, to study, modify and redistribute the copies of original or modified program. Its objective is to encourage the involvement in the form of improvement, modification and distribution of the licensed work. OSS proved itself highly suited, both as a software product and as a development methodology. The main challenge in the open source software development (OSSD) is to collect and extract data. This paper presents various aspects of open source software community, role of different types of users as well as developers. A metric-based approach for analysis of software development processes in open source environment is suggested and validated through a case study by studying the various development processes undertaken by developers for about fifty different open – source software’s.

Published in	American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (Volume 2, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajsea.20130202.16
Page(s)	68-79
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Free Software, Freedom, Open Source Software (Oss), Propriety Software, Oss Developer Community, Oss Metrics

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Parminder Kaur

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143005, India
Hardeep Singh

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143005, India

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