Measuring the Open Source Software Using Version Control System to Study the Software Evolution

Abstract

Open Source Software systems are built by potentially large number of volunteers who seldom meet face to face but work together. The developers coordinate their activity by means of email, bulletin boards and the version control system tools. The open source software thus poses a real challenge and if open source market is really posing athreat to the commercial development so it is vital to understand and evaluate the open source software. This study thus has been conducted focusing on the evolution of the open source software. The idea in thesis is to study the evolution of the open source software under the effects of the data mined from the version control system.