Exploring the structure of complex software designs
Subtitle: an empirical study of open source and proprietary code
By: Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, Carliss Baldwin
Contributors: Rusnak, John; Baldwin, Carliss Y. (Carliss Young); Harvard Business School. Division of Research
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 05-016; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 05-016
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Description: This paper reports data from a research project which seeks to characterize the differences in design structure between complex software products. In particular, we adopt a technique based upon Design Structure Matrices (DSMs) to map the dependencies between different elements of a design then develop metrics that allow us to compare the structures of these different DSMs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.