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Social Network Analysis of Communication in Open Source Projects

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2008)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 9))

Abstract

In agile methodologies communication is a fundamental value because understanding communicational practices keeps together all the different aspects that improve team performance. In Open Source (OS) teams communication is also important because of the nature of the communities. We present a study of Mailing Lists (MLs) of some of the most successful OS projects to analyse their communicational flow. We adopted Social Network Analysis (SNA) approach to quantitatively describe these communities and to evaluate the communicational practices.

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  1. Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza d’Armi, Cagliari, 09123, Italy

    Guido Porruvecchio, Selene Uras & Roberta Quaresima

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  1. Guido Porruvecchio
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Pekka Abrahamsson Richard Baskerville Kieran Conboy Brian Fitzgerald Lorraine Morgan Xiaofeng Wang

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Porruvecchio, G., Uras, S., Quaresima, R. (2008). Social Network Analysis of Communication in Open Source Projects. In: Abrahamsson, P., Baskerville, R., Conboy, K., Fitzgerald, B., Morgan, L., Wang, X. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68255-4_28

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