QACOS

The QACOS project (Quality and Architecture Concerns in Open Source) was the working title of a 3-year long project funded by the Irish Research Council. The project was funded under the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) programme which provides scholarships for PhD students. The project sought to develop a better understanding of the quality and architectural concerns that firms might have when developing products with Open Source Software as well as with Inner Source.

Project Details

Start Date: October 2008

End Date: September 2011

Funding: Irish Research Council

Budget: EUR 72,000

Principal Investigator:Klaas-Jan Stol

Collaborators: Muhammad Ali Babar, Paris Avgeriou, Brian Fitzgerald

Related Publications

TOSEM 2014: Key Factors for Adopting Inner Source

IST 2011: A comparative study of challenges in integrating Open Source Software and Inner Source Software

ECSA 2011: Design and Evaluation of a Process for Identifying Architecture Patterns in Open Source Software

OSS 2010: A comparison framework for open source software evaluation methods

EASE 2010: Identifying architectural patterns used in open source software: approaches and challenges

FLOSS 2010: Challenges in using open source software in product development: a review of the literature

FLOSS 2009 : Reporting empirical research in open source software: the state of practice

OSS 2009: Reporting empirical research in open source software: the state of practice