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Open source software maintenance process framework

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Virpi HottiAuthors Info & Claims

5-WOSSE: Proceedings of the fifth workshop on Open source software engineering

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1083258.1083265

Published: 17 May 2005 Publication History

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To identify the Open Source maintenance process two well known Open Source projects Apache HTTP server and Mozilla web browser were studied. The Open Source software maintenance process is formal even anyone can submit modifications or defect reports to Open Source software projects. We assume that the Open Source maintenance process is similar to the maintenance process defined by the ISO/IEC. In the case studies. four activities were found similar to the activities of the ISO/IEC Maintenance process. This paper presents the Open Source maintenance process framework. The framework is exemplified with the ISO/IEC Maintenance process framework.

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Index Terms

Open source software maintenance process framework
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues

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5-WOSSE: Proceedings of the fifth workshop on Open source software engineering

May 2005

74 pages

ISBN:1595931279

DOI:10.1145/1083258

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30, Issue 4
July 2005
1514 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/1082983
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