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International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA'06)
Evaluation Framework for Open Source Software Maintenance
Tahiti, French Polynesia
October 29-November 03
ISBN: 0-7695-2703-5
Timo Koponen, University of Kuopio, Finland
Open Source Software is becoming evermore important and widespread these days, so its maintenance has become important issue. In this paper, we presented an evaluation framework for Open Source Software maintenance. The framework was evaluated with five well known case studies. The results showed that our framework was suitable for evaluating scale of the project and activity, efficiency, traceability and quickness of the defect management and maintenance processes. The case studies showed that quality of the defect reports was low and therefore many of them were ignored as duplicate or invalid. In addition, most of the software changes were not connected to defects, which may express lack of management.
Index Terms:
Problem tracking, issue tracking, bug report, software modification, defect life cycle, metrics
Citation:
Timo Koponen, "Evaluation Framework for Open Source Software Maintenance," icsea, pp.52, International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA'06), 2006
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