Social engineering of Open Source software

Open Source Software Engineering

The term Open Source Software (OSS) first appeared in 1998 [1] in an effort to change the popular understanding of what had to that point been called “free software” products like GNU/Linux, Apache, Perl and BIND. In the periods both immediately before and after the coining of the term, many insightful essays appeared both online and in print, attempting to better explain this novel approach to...

Software Engineering Lessons from Open Source Projects

The Open Source form of software development has captured the attention of academics and software practitioners alike. Though, this ‘phenomenon’ has been touted by some to be how all software will eventually be developed, many are critical about how far this form of organization will be successful. It is very likely that both the traditional form as well as the Open Source form of organization ...

Social Preferences and Open Source Software Development

Open source software (OSS), and open innovation in general, has received increasing attention from both researchers and practitioners. Based on recent literature on social preference from behavior economics, we propose a finite-horizon dynamic model to study the interactions between OSS developers who are either purely self-interested or conditional cooperators. We find that selfinterested deve...

Social Structure for Open Source Software Projects

Open source software (OSS) has drawn increasing attention from both practitioners and researchers in recent years. However, few empirical studies have investigated the interaction process of OSS teams during OSS development. This dissertation has two primary objectives. First, the research studies the social structure of OSS teams. Second, the research investigates the factors impacting the soc...

Open Source Software Development (OSSD) Based On Software Engineering