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Open source software development challenges traditional views on software development; an apparently anarchistic bunch of hackers, working for free, produce widely used software. In this paper we investigate the role played by continuous integration with regard to coordinating the efforts of hundreds of developers in two open source projects, FreeBSD and Mozilla.
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Holck, J., Jørgensen, N. (2004). Continuous Integration as a Means of Coordination. In: Linger, H., et al. Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4852-9_13
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