TY - GEN
T1 - A proposal of an installation manual generation method for open source software using operation logs
AU - Murakami, Yukikazu
AU - Funabiki, Nobuo
AU - Tokunaga, Hidekazu
AU - Shigeta, Kazuhiro
AU - Nakanishi, Toru
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - An Open Source Software (OSS) is the software whose source code has been public, usually through the Internet, so that everybody can use and modify it freely. A lot of companies, governments, and universities are now using OSS technologies because of the advantages they bring. However, the use of an OSS is actually hard for its beginners, because many OSSes have few good manuals, where they have usually been developed by volunteers. Besides, the installation of an OSS package sometimes requires installations of multiple OSS packages to be integrated together. In this paper, we propose a method of automatically generating an installation manual of an OSS package, including the one requiring the integration of multiple OSS packages. Then, we implement the proposed method for evaluations. Our experimental results in installations of OSS packages including the one requiring the integration of four packages by generated manuals verify the effectiveness of our method.
AB - An Open Source Software (OSS) is the software whose source code has been public, usually through the Internet, so that everybody can use and modify it freely. A lot of companies, governments, and universities are now using OSS technologies because of the advantages they bring. However, the use of an OSS is actually hard for its beginners, because many OSSes have few good manuals, where they have usually been developed by volunteers. Besides, the installation of an OSS package sometimes requires installations of multiple OSS packages to be integrated together. In this paper, we propose a method of automatically generating an installation manual of an OSS package, including the one requiring the integration of multiple OSS packages. Then, we implement the proposed method for evaluations. Our experimental results in installations of OSS packages including the one requiring the integration of four packages by generated manuals verify the effectiveness of our method.
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U2 - 10.1109/SITIS.2008.62
DO - 10.1109/SITIS.2008.62
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:60349098215
SN - 9780769534930
T3 - SITIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems
SP - 547
EP - 554
BT - SITIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems
T2 - 4th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems, SITIS 2008
Y2 - 30 November 2008 through 3 December 2008
ER -