Articles

• Who is afraid of OSS? Best Practices in Implementing OSS in the Regulated Industries

Accepted in the journal "Pharmaceutical Engineering"

Authors: Markus Kaufmann, Stefan Mûnch, Marcus Ciolkowski, Martín Soto, Erwin Kruschitz, Till Jostes, Karl-Heinz Menges

Date: Upcoming issue (November/December 2009)

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• Tools for the Study of the Usual Data Sources found in Libre Software Projects 

Published in the International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes, Vol. 1, issue 1

Authors: Gregorio Robles, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Daniel Izquirdo-Cortasar, Israel Herraiz, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Spain

Date: January 2009

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• The Need for Libre Software Research in Europe

Article published in UPGRADE , The European Journal for the Informatics Professional, volume VIII, issue no. 6

Authors: Israel Herraiz Tabernero, Rafael Rodríguez Galván, Manuel Palomo Duarte, University of Cádiz, Spain.

Date: December 2007

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• A stakeholder-centric quality model for Open Source 

Authors: FUNDP (Naji Habra and Flora Kamseu), CETIC (Jean Christophe Deprez)

Date: September 7, 2007 

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• Integrated Quality Assurance for Evolutionary Multi-Platform Software Development

Article published in CrossTalk - The Journal of Defense Software Engineering

Authors: Dr. Robert B.K. Dewar, AdaCore

Date: November 2006

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Conference Papers

• What Does It Take to Develop a Million Lines of Open Source Code?

Author: Daniel Izquirdo Cortázar

Proceedings: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS '09) in Skövde, Sweeden.

Date: June 3-6, 2009

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• Measuring Open Source Documentation Availability 

Authors: Matulevičius R., Kamseu F. & Habra N.

Proceedings: Proceedings of the the 12th International Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology (Conquest '09).

Date: September 16-18, 2009

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• Assessing FLOSS Communities. An Experience Report from the QualOSS Project.

Author: Daniel Izquirdo Cortázar

Proceedings: Proceedings of the the 12th International Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology (Conquest '09).

Date: September 16-18, 2009

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• Towards a Comprehensive Approach for Assessing Open Source Projects

Authors: Ciolkowski, M; Soto, M.

Proceedings: Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement, November 2008, Munich, Germany

Date: November 18-19, 2008

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• Towards a Process Maturity Model for Open Source Software

Authors: Ciolkowski, M; Soto, M.

Proceedings: Proceedings of Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Source Software, QACOS 2008, Turku, Finland

Date: July 28 - August 1, 2008

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• Managing Libre Software Distributions under a Product Line Approach

Authors: Israel Herraiz, Gregorio Robles, Rafael Capilla, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) (Madrid, Spain)

Proceedings: Proceedings of COMPSAC '08, Computer Software and Applications, 2008.

Date: July 28 - August 1, 2008

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• Assessing Process Maturity of Open Source Projects

Authors: Ciolkowski, M., Soto, M.

Proceedings: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFESS 2008), Frascati, Italy

Date: June 23 - 25, 2008

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• Comparing Assessment Methodologies for Free/Open Source

Authors: Jean Christophe Deprez and Simon Alexandre from CETIC (Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technologies), Belgium

Proceedings: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFESS 2008), Frascati, Italy

Date: June 23 - 25, 2008

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• An Operational Approach for Selecting Open Source Components in a Software Development Project

Authors: Annick Majchrowski and Jean-Christophe Deprez, CETIC (Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technologies), Belgium

Proceedings: Proceedings of Software Process Improvement, the 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Ireland,

Date: September 3-5, 2008

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• FlOSS Managed Data Sources Maturity Level: An attempt

Authors: Monfils, J.F.; Deprez, J.-C. - CETIC (Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technologies), Belgium.

Proceedings: Proceedings of the Third International IEEE Workshop on Software Evolvability, Paris, France, 2007

Date: October 1, 2007

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• Defining Software Evolvability from a Free/Open-Source Software

Authors: Jean-Christophe Deprez, Fredédéric Fleurial Monfils - CETIC (Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technologies), Belgium and Marcus Ciolkowski, Martín Soto - Fraunhofer IESE, Germany.

Proceedings: Proceedings of the Third International IEEE Workshop on Software Evolvability 2007

Date: October 1, 2007

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• Quelle maintenabilité et évolutivité du logiciel libre? Cas de PhpMyAdmin et du serveur apache

Authors: Naji Habra and Flora Kamseu, University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium.

Proceedings: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the AIM, Lausanne, Switzerland

Date: June 18-19, 2007

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• Forecasting the number of changes in Eclipse using Time Series Analysis

Authors: Naji Habra and Flora Kamseu, University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium.

Proceedings: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, 2007, Minneapolis, USA

Date: May 19-20, 2007

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• Towards a theoretical model for software growth

Authors: Israel Herraiz, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Spain

Proceedings: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, 2007, Minneapolis, USA

Date: May 19-20, 2007

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• AdaCore Quality Procedures

Authors: Romain Berrendonner, Software QA Manager, AdaCore, Paris

Proceedings: Proceedings of the 7th Free/Open Source Developer European Meeting (FOSDEM 2007), Brussels

Date: Feburary 24-25, 2007

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