Open Source Software

by Agerfalk, Par; Boldyreff, Cornelia; Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M.; Madey, Gregory R.; Noll, John

• ISBN13: 9783642132438
• ISBN10: 364213243X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-07
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International IFIP WG 2.13 Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2010, held in Notre Dame, IN, USA, in May/June 2010. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 17 short papers, 5 workshop abstracts and 4 panel descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers reflect the international communities of active OSS researchers and present a broad range of perspectives on open source systems ranging from software engineering through organizational issues to law.

Table of Contents

Full Papers
Spago4Q and the QEST nD Model: An Open Source Solution for Software Performance Measurement	p. 1
An Investigation of the Users' Perception of OSS Quality	p. 15
Engaging without Over-Powering: A Case Study of a FLOSS Project	p. 29
The Meso-level Structure of F/OSS Collaboration Network: Local Communities and Their Innovativeness	p. 42
To Patent or Not to Patent: A Pilot Experiment on Incentives to Copyright in a Sequential Innovation Setting	p. 53
Voting for Bugs in Firefox: A Voice for Mom and Dad?	p. 73
The Nagios Community: An Extended Quantitative Analysis	p. 85
Collaborative Development for the XO Laptop: CODEX 2	p. 97
Risks and Risk Mitigation in Open Source Software Adoption: Bridging the Gap between Literature and Practice	p. 105
Usability Innovations in OSS Development - Examining User Innovations in an OSS Usability Discussion Forum	p. 119
Governance in Open Source Software Development Projects: A Comparative Multi-level Analysis	p. 130
Evaluating the Readiness of Proprietary Software for Open Source Development	p. 143
Where and When Can Source Thrive? Towards a Theory of Robust Performance	p. 156
How Open Are Local Government Documents in Sweden? A Case for Open Standards	p. 177
Bug Localization Using Revision Log Analysis and Open Bug Repository Text Categorization	p. 188
T-DOC: A Tool for the Automatic Generation of Testing Documentation for OSS Products	p. 200
Open Source Introducing Policy and Promotion of Regional Industries in Japan	p. 214
Comparing OpenBRR, QSOS, and OMM Assessment Models	p. 224
Joining and Socialization in Open Source Women's Groups: An Exploratory Study of KDE-Women	p. 239
Download Patterns and Releases in Open Source Software Projects: A Perfect Symbiosis?	p. 252
Modelling Failures Occurrences of Open Source Software with Reliability Growth	p. 268
A Field Study on the Barriers in the Assimilation of Open Source Server Software	p. 281
Reclassifying Success and Tragedy in FLOSS Projects	p. 294
Short Papers
Three Strategies for Open Source Deployment: Substitution, Innovation, and Knowledge Reuse	p. 308
Coordination Implications of Software Coupling in Open Source Projects	p. 314
Industry Regulation through Open Source Software: A Strategic Ownership Proposal	p. 322
Proposal for Solving Incompatibility Problems between Open-Source and Proprietary Web Browsers	p. 330
FLOSS Communities: Analyzing Evolvability and Robustness from an Industrial Perspective	p. 336
BULB: Onion-Based Measuring of OSS Communities	p. 342
A Network of FLOSS Competence Centres	p. 348
Profiling F/OSS Adoption Modes: An Interpretive Approach	p. 354
Introducing Automated Unit Testing into Open Source Projects	p. 361
A Case Study on the Transformation from Proprietary to Open Source Software	p. 367
High-Level Debugging Facilities and Interfaces: Design and Development of a Debug-Oriented I.D.E.	p. 373
To Rule and Be Ruled: Governance and Participation in FOSS Projects	p. 380
A Comparison Framework for Open Source Software Evaluation Methods	p. 389
An Exploratory Long-Term Open Source Activity Analysis: Implications from Empirical Findings on Activity Statistics	p. 395
Challenges for Mobile Middleware Platform: Issues for Embedded Open Source Software Integration	p. 401
Open Source Software Developer and Project Networks	p. 407
Warehousing and Studying Open Source Versioning Metadata	p. 413
Workshop
Workshop - Open Source Software for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds: Practice and Future	p. 419
WoPDaSD 2010: 5th Workshop on Public Data about Software Development	p. 421
Second International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source Communities: OSCOMM 2010	p. 423
Open Source Policy and Promotion of IT Industries in East Asia	p. 425
OSS 2010 Doctoral Consortium (OSS2010DC)	p. 427
Panels
Student Participation in OSS Projects	p. 429
Open Source Software/Systems in Humanitarian Applications (H-FOSS)	p. 431
The FOSS 2010 Community Report	p. 432
The Present and Future of FLOSS Data Archives	p. 434
Author Index	p. 437
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