Continuous Integration in Open Source Software Development

Deshpande A, Riehle D (2008)


Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article

Publication year: 2008

Journal

Publisher: Springer Verlag

Edited Volumes: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

City/Town: ..

Pages Range: 273-280

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Open Source Systems

Event location: OSS 2008

URI: http://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/oss-2008-continuous-integration-final-web.pdf

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_23

Abstract

Commercial software firms are increasingly using and contributing to open source software. Thus, they need to understand and work with open source software development processes. This paper investigates whether the practice of continuous integration of agile software development methods has had an impact on open source software projects. Using fine-granular data from more than 5000 active open source software projects we analyze the size of code contributions over a project's life-span. Code contribution size has stayed flat. We interpret this to mean that open source software development has not changed its code integration practices. In particular, within the limits of this study, we claim that the practice of continuous integration has not yet significantly influenced the behavior of open source software developers. © 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.

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APA:

Deshpande, A., & Riehle, D. (2008). Continuous Integration in Open Source Software Development. In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Open Source Systems (pp. 273-280). OSS 2008: ..: Springer Verlag.

MLA:

Deshpande, Amit, and Dirk Riehle. "Continuous Integration in Open Source Software Development." Proceedings of the International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2008 ..: Springer Verlag, 2008. 273-280.

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