Lessons learned from an open-source University project

Abstract:- Open-source software development has become a widespread trend within the software engineering community and has begun to attract the attention of other disciplines as well. To help students understand the practices used within the open-source movement and to initiate an effort for logging all aspects of the software development process, our Laboratory has set up an open-source project targeting undergraduate and postgraduate computer science students. The main aim of the project is to systematically record architecture and code related information as well as "soft " issues related to the individuals that take part in the development. The paper discusses results and conclusions drawn from this project. Key-Words:- open-source, software development, software engineering, student projects, bet prediction and analysis, software architecture, software metric