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Coordination Implications of Software Coupling in Open Source Projects

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The effect of software coupling on the quality of software has been studied quite widely since the seminal paper on software modularity by Parnas [1]. However, the effect of the increase in software coupling on the coordination of the developers has not been researched as much. In commercial software development environments there normally are coordination mechanisms in place to manage the coordination requirements due to software dependencies. But, in the case of Open Source software such coordination mechanisms are harder to implement, as the developers tend to rely solely on electronic means of communication. Hence, an understanding of the changing coordination requirements is essential to the management of an Open Source project. In this paper we study the effect of changes in software coupling on the coordination requirements in a case study of a popular Open Source project called JBoss.
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hal-01056046 , version 1 (14-08-2014)

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Chintan Amrit, Jos Hillegersberg. Coordination Implications of Software Coupling in Open Source Projects. 6th International IFIP WG 2.13 Conference on Open Source Systems,(OSS), May 2010, Notre Dame, United States. pp.314-321, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-13244-5_25⟩. ⟨hal-01056046⟩
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