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January/February 2004 (Vol. 21, No. 1)
pp. 59-66
Free and Open Source Development Practices in the Game Community
Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine
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Empirical studies of four distinct free and open source software development communities find at least five common types of development processes. These communities, particularly the computer game community, provide examples of common practices.
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Index Terms- open source software development, software engineering, software development processes, software project management
Citation:
Walt Scacchi,
"Free and Open Source Development Practices in the Game Community,"
IEEE Software,
vol. 21,
no. 1,
pp. 59-66,
Jan/Feb,
2004
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