Program evolution: processes of software change
Program evolution: processes of software change
Reference Model for Smooth Growth of Software Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
An Empirical Approach to Studying Software Evolution
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
Software Evolution Observations Based on Product Release History
ICSM '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Metrics and Laws of Software Evolution - The Nineties View
METRICS '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Implications of Evolution Metrics on Software Maintenance
ICSM '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study
ICSM '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00)
Evolution and Growth in Large Libre Software Projects
IWPSE '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
The Official Ubuntu Book
An analysis method for improving a bug modification process in open source software development
Proceedings of the joint international and annual ERCIM workshops on Principles of software evolution (IWPSE) and software evolution (Evol) workshops
A time-lag analysis for improving communication among OSS developers
JSAI-isAI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
Controversy Corner: Preserving knowledge in software projects
Journal of Systems and Software
The evolution of mobile apps: an exploratory study
Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Software Development Lifecycle for Mobile
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Open Source Software (OSS) has become the subject of much commercial and academic interest in last few years. As traditional software, OSS also evolves to fulfill the need of stakeholders. Therefore, providing quantitative metrics for OSS evolution has also become an urgent issue. However, most existing studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. These metrics models are inadequate to measure OSS evolution. In this paper, we describe a preliminary evolution metrics set for evaluating OSS. The most significant novelty of this model is that it takes specific properties of Open Source Community (OSC) into consideration. In another word, we measure the evolution of OSS and OSC together. We also provide a lightweight case study on Ubuntu project using this metrics set. We find out that the Open Source Community and its members also play essential role in OSS evolution. We expect this metrics model can bring better understandings and explanations of phenomena in open source development and evolution.