Title:
XP: Open-Source
Software
Development Methodology
Abstract: Open
Source
Software (OSS) development is a fairly new concept in the field of
software
engineering. OSS is free software that evolves as programmers on the
Internet
read, redistribute, and modify the source code for the software.
Developers
from all geographic areas improve, adapt, and fix the software. They
work
voluntarily on a project of their choice. As new requirements emerge,
the
software is enhanced by the user and developers. And this can happen
very
rapidly compared to conventional software development methodologies.
This
paper shall follow an explorative approach to open-source software
development
methodology, examining widely known software development methodologies
and
introducing Extreme Programming (XP) as an Open Source Software
development
methodology.
Authors: Samer
Barakat
and Basil Dudin