Open Source Software: Lessons from and for Software Engineering

  • Authors:
  • Brian Fitzgerald

  • Affiliations:
  • Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Despite initial suggestions to the contrary, open source software projects exhibit many of the fundamental tenets of software engineering. Likewise, the existence of category-killer apps suggests that conventional software engineering can draw some lessons from OSS.