Software process support over the Internet
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
An Industrial Survey of Requirements Interdependencies in Software Product Release Plannin
RE '01 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
Agile, open source, distributed, and on-time: inside the eclipse development process
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Detecting increases in feature coupling using regression tests
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Bi-objective release planning for evolving software systems
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
A systematic review on strategic release planning models
Information and Software Technology
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Release Planning is the process of decision making about what features are to be implemented (or revised) in which release of a software product. While release planning for proprietary software products is well-studied, little investigation has been performed for open source products. Various types of feature dependencies are known to impact both the planning and the subsequent maintenance process. In this paper, we provide the basic layout of a method to formulate and analyze feature dependencies defined at the code level. Dependencies are defined from evolutionary analysis of the commit graph of OSS code development and syntactical dependencies. We demonstrate our method with an explorative study of an open source project, the Spring Framework. From the analysis of the development cycles of two major releases over forty-one months, we could correlate late, increased feature dependencies with an increased number for subsequent improvements and bug fixes.