Title: Two Case Studies of Open Source Software Development: Apache and Mozilla
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According to its proponents, open source style software development has the capacity to compete successfully, and perhaps in many cases displace, traditional commercial development methods. In order to begin investigating such claims, we examine data from two major open source projects, the Apache web server and the Mozilla browser. By using email archives of source code change history and problem reports we quantify aspects of developer participation, core team size, code ownership, productivity, defect density, and problem resolution intervals for these OSS projects. We develop several hypotheses by comparing the Apache project with several commercial projects. We then test and refine several of these hypotheses, based on an analysis of Mozilla data. We conclude with thoughts about the prospects for high-performance commercial/open source process hybrids.

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Mozilla Digital Memory Bank, Object #376, 23 May 2006, <http://mozillamemory.org/detailview.php?id=376> (accesed 9 April 2021)

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Title: Two Case Studies of Open Source Software Development: Apache and Mozilla
Creator: Audris Mockus (Avaya Labs Research), Roy T. Fielding (Day Software), and James D. Herbsleb (Carnegie Mellon University)
Subject: Software Engineering, Software Management, Experimentation, Open Source Software, defect density, repair interval, code ownership, Apache, Mozilla
Description: According to its proponents, open source style software development has the capacity to compete successfully, and perhaps in many cases displace, traditional commercial development methods. In order to begin investigating such claims, we examine data from two major open source projects, the Apache web server and the Mozilla browser. By using email archives of source code change history and problem reports we quantify aspects of developer participation, core team size, code ownership, productivity, defect density, and problem resolution intervals for these OSS projects. We develop several hypotheses by comparing the Apache project with several commercial projects. We then test and refine several of these hypotheses, based on an analysis of Mozilla data. We conclude with thoughts about the prospects for high-performance commercial/open source process hybrids.
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
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Date: 2002-07-03
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Source: http://www.acm.org/
Language: eng
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