Performance of Open Source Projects
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The patterns in this paper describe open source development practices from a performance perspective. In product development, performance is measured in terms of the time it takes to develop a software product, the resulting quality of the software, and the cost of development. These dimensions are in tension with one another. Since improving performance has side effects, we also need to include the impact on other dimensions than performance (eg risk, trust) in our discussion of the practices.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009