In order to determine a success criterion for open-source software projects, we analyzed 122,205 projects in the SourceForge database. There were 80,597 projects with no downloads...
Dror G. Feitelson, Gillian Z. Heller, Stephen R. S...
Some free software and open source projects have been extremely successful in the past. The success of a project is often related to the number of developers it can attract: a larg...
We present the results of a three year field study of the software development process choices made by project teams at two leading offshore vendors. In particular, we focus on th...
A large software project may be distributed over multiple sites when the organization believes that there are not enough people to staff a single collocated team. However, previou...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...