TY - GEN
T1 - On the impact of product quality attributes on open source project evolution
AU - Gomes da Silva, António César B.
AU - de Figueiredo Carneiro, Glauco
AU - Monteiro, Miguel Pessoa
AU - Brito e Abreu, Fernando
AU - Constantino, Kattiana
AU - Figueiredo, Eduardo
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Context: Several Open Source Software (OSS) projects have adopted frequent releases as a strategy to deliver both new features and fixed bugs on time. This cycle begins with express requests from the project’s community, registered as issues in bug repositories by active users and developers. Each OSS project has its own priorities established by their respective communities. A a still open question is the set of criteria and priorities that influence the decisions of which issues should be analyzed, implemented/solved and delivered in next releases. In this paper, we present an exploratory study whose goal is to investigate the influence of target product quality attributes in software evolution practices of OSS projects. The goal is to search for evidence of relationships between these target attributes, priorities assigned to the registered issues and the ways they are delivered by product releases. To this end, we asked six participants of an exploratory study to identify these attributes through the data analysis of repositories of three well-known OSS projects: Libre Office, Eclipse and Mozilla Firefox. Evidence indicated by the participants suggest that OSS community developers use criteria/ priorities driven by specific software product quality attributes, to plan and integrate software releases.
AB - Context: Several Open Source Software (OSS) projects have adopted frequent releases as a strategy to deliver both new features and fixed bugs on time. This cycle begins with express requests from the project’s community, registered as issues in bug repositories by active users and developers. Each OSS project has its own priorities established by their respective communities. A a still open question is the set of criteria and priorities that influence the decisions of which issues should be analyzed, implemented/solved and delivered in next releases. In this paper, we present an exploratory study whose goal is to investigate the influence of target product quality attributes in software evolution practices of OSS projects. The goal is to search for evidence of relationships between these target attributes, priorities assigned to the registered issues and the ways they are delivered by product releases. To this end, we asked six participants of an exploratory study to identify these attributes through the data analysis of repositories of three well-known OSS projects: Libre Office, Eclipse and Mozilla Firefox. Evidence indicated by the participants suggest that OSS community developers use criteria/ priorities driven by specific software product quality attributes, to plan and integrate software releases.
KW - Open Source Software (OSS) projects
KW - Software product quality attributes
KW - Software releases
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-54978-1_77
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-54978-1_77
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85048332286
SN - 9783319549774
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 613
EP - 620
BT - Information Technology – New Generations - 14th International Conference on Information Technology
A2 - Latifi, Shahram
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 14th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations, ITNG 2017
Y2 - 10 April 2017 through 12 April 2017
ER -