Study and Analysis of The Team Structures on Development Processes

In recent years open source software has seen magnificent success as it produces high quality software at lower cost than the traditional commercial development. Open source proves itself highly suited, both as software product and as development methodology. This paper investigates the benefits as well as the limitations of the open source development and makes an effort to discuss the open source project community structure in relation to the organizational community structure. The focus of this paper is to examine the inner workings of the development process of successful and mature Apache and Mozilla foundation and provide the analysis of the role hierarchy, role migration, development community size, work distribution, problem reports and code ownership through comparative case studies of Apache and Mozilla.