期刊名称：International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)
印刷版ISSN：0976-2221
电子版ISSN：0975-9018
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：71
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) is an incredible and innovative opportunity of software developmentin the area of software engineering. An F/OSS project evolves by receiving submissions from varioussources to address different aspects of the project like bug identification, feature request, support request,translation request, source code, documentation etc. The present paper delves into a multi-case study ofF/OSS projects to evaluate volunteer participation in defect management quantitatively as well asqualitatively. The relevant defect data has been retrieved from a research collaboratory. It is found thatgenerally a small core team is surrounded by a large community of volunteers participating in defects. It isobserved that defect reporting is a widely dispersed activity mostly contributed by volunteers external tocore team making occasional contribution while defect resolution is concentrated among a few individualsmainly from core team making regular contribution.
关键词：Defect Management; Free Software; Open Source; Volunteer
