Understanding the requirements for developing open source software systems

By Walt Scacchi. IEE Proceedings - Software, 2002

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Information Systems

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The Impact of Ideology on Effectiveness in Open Source Software Development Teams (2006, background): “Given that meeting budgets and requirements may not be relevant in OSS (Scacchi 2002), more appropriate indicators of outcome success may be those related to the ongoing productivity of the team.”
Meta-design: A Framework for the Future of End-User Development (2006, background): “Open source development [Raymond & Young, 2001; Resnick, 1994; Scacchi, 2002; Scacchi, 2004] is an example of unselfconscious design because (1) the developers are the owners of problems, (2) they create software systems primarily for their specific needs, and (3) the software is personally meaningf”
Defining Open Source Software Project Success (2003, background): “Millions of users depend on OSS systems such as Linux (and the Internet, which is heavily dependent on OSS tools), but as Scacchi (2001) notes, “little is known about how people in these communities coordinate software development across different settings, or about what software processes, work pr”
Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects (2015, background): “Focusing on open source software (OSS) development communities,, in which newcomers are usually left to learn on their own [67], the qualitative study described in this paper aimed to identify, understand, and organize the barriers faced by newcomers.”
Emergence of New Project Teams from Open Source Software Developer Networks: Impact of Prior Collaboration Ties (2008, background): “Moreover, in the OSSD context, the difficulty inherent in the social process becomes even greater than in traditional software projects because members of an OSSD project are typically from geographically dispersed locations (Crowston and Scozzi 2002) and have limited (if any) face-to-face interacti”
Impacts of License Choice and Organizational Sponsorship on User Interest and Development Activity in Open Source Software Projects (2006, background): “In this setting, there often is no a priori budget, timeline, or set of specifications (Scacchi 2002).”
Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as a Global Sourcing Strategy (2008, background): “Initially, OSS developers did not engage in formal requirements analysis with customers (Scacchi, 2002), but took direct responsibility for development decisions.”
Information systems success in free and open source software development: theory and measures (2006, methodology): “Scacchi (2002) examined the process of “requirements engineering” in open source projects and provided a comparison with the traditional processes (e.g., Davis, 1990; Jackson, 1995).”