Discovering and modeling open source software processes

Open source software (OSS) development is quickly gaining acceptance as a software production paradigm with hundreds of thousands of projects and millions of participants. Spanning almost forty years to Royce's waterfall model, software engineering literature has given us best practices for the processes associated with creating software products. Initial indications suggest that OSS projects may not employ software engineering processes as prescribed. Yet, many OSS projects have produced large-scale, widely adopted software systems. While research interest in OSS projects remains avid, few researchers have examined OSS processes. In this dissertation, I present a study to discover and model open source software processes.

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