A Two Phase Case Study on Implementation of Open Source Development Practices within a Company Setting
Orucevic-Alagic, Alma LU
and Höst, Martin
LU
(2016)
International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
p.63-70
- Abstract
- Implementation of open source development practices within commercial settings can bring benefits such as improved source code quality, lower maintenance costs, and increased innovation. However, a widespread in-house implementation of the practices has not been observed. The goal of this research is to understand factors which hinder the implementation. For the purpose, development practices of a large, global software and hardware organization that bases its products on open source software, and has over a decade long experience of contributing to various open source projects were studied. The results were validated through a set of structured interviews and a focus group meeting. It is found that the initial implementation of the... (More)
- Implementation of open source development practices within commercial settings can bring benefits such as improved source code quality, lower maintenance costs, and increased innovation. However, a widespread in-house implementation of the practices has not been observed. The goal of this research is to understand factors which hinder the implementation. For the purpose, development practices of a large, global software and hardware organization that bases its products on open source software, and has over a decade long experience of contributing to various open source projects were studied. The results were validated through a set of structured interviews and a focus group meeting. It is found that the initial implementation of the process has not been carried out in a planned and systematic way within the company. The results of the follow-up focus group meeting show that while the company's practices acquired a higher degree of alignment over a two-year period, the change was necessitated by a need to have a more efficient development effort across new, globally distributed, development sites. (Less)
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- Orucevic-Alagic, Alma
LU
and Höst, Martin
LU
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- Proceedings Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2016)
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Knowledge Systems Institute (KSI)
- conference name
- International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
- conference location
- San Fransisco, United States
- conference dates
- 2016-07-01 - 2016-07-03
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- 1-891706-39-X
- DOI
- 10.18293/SEKE2016-088
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- English
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