Evaluating the Quality of Open Source Software

Spinellis, Diomidis; Gousios, Georgios; Karakoidas, Vassilios; Λουρίδας, Πάνος; Adams, Paul; Samoladas, Ioannis; Stamelos, Ioannis

doi:10.1016/j.entcs.2009.02.058

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“…Among the most relevant articles that based on our survey they are four articles (Tomas et al, 2013;van Emden and Moonen, 2002;Spinellis et al, 2009;Wagner et al, 2005) • Java Power Tools book (Smart, 2009). Chapter "Quality metrics tools" • ISO/IEC 25000 portal (ISO/IEC, 2015).…”

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Comparative Study of the Quality Assessment Tools Based on a Model: Sonar, Squale, EvalMetrics

Bougroun¹,

Zeearaoui²,

Bouchentouf³

2016

Journal of Computer Science

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To build software, the customer is looking for a company that develops the product in record time with minimal cost and good quality. To measure the productivity and the software quality, several indicators and metrics have emerged, which have been the subject of various research fields and which are highly demanded by enterprises and software development teams. In order to assess the software quality and ensure of the quality of the product many tools have been developed and used. The work presented in this study is focused on tools measuring software quality, so we present the open source tools developed in java, then we compare it, according to some criteria defined in this study.

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Section: Context and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative Study of the Quality Assessment Tools Based on a Model: Sonar, Squale, EvalMetrics

Bougroun¹,

Zeearaoui²,

Bouchentouf³

2016

Journal of Computer Science

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“…This trend is illustrated by current research in the academic world [1][2][3][4][5], [13], [20] as well as research programs funded by various organizations and governments such as the Qualipso project [16] or Qualoss [10].…”

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The Impact of Formal QA Practices on FLOSS Communities – The Case of Mozilla

Barham

2012

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…Some of these factors include: an alternative Bazaar style of developing software which harnesses diverse talents of globally distributed teams of developers, freedom from vendor lock-in, lower total cost of ownership and hybrid business models opportunities, and learning and knowledge sharing prospects [2]. However, even though there is continued improvement in the quality of FOSS [3], the adoption and integration of FOSS technologies and services into the operation of businesses is largely hampered because many users have little confidence and trust in the quality and security of FOSS. Since the wish of every software user is to have a reliable application which is free of bugs, then the presence or lack of bugs is one among many measures that can help us determine the quality and security level of a given piece of software.…”

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“…Bugs and debugging are an integral part of FOSS development and many projects are hailed for the rate at which volunteers contribute to this process. It is argued that the iterative nature of this process leads to the evolution, improved quality, and reliability [3], [4] of the software. The importance of finding, reporting, and fixing bugs in FOSS is well captured in Linus' law [5], which states;"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".…”

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A Multi-repository Approach to Study the Topology of Open Source Bugs Communities: Implications for Software and Code Quality

Sowe¹,

Ghosh²,

Haaland³

2013

IJCTE

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Abstract-Businesses and research establishments are increasingly turning to Free and Open Source software (FOSS) as a means to lower software development, acquisition, and deployment costs. However, software quality and security remains key stumbling blocks to full scale FOSS adoption and deployment. Yet improvement in the quality and security of FOSS depends on the rate at which a community of volunteers report and fix bugs. The aim of this research is to understand the community governance of the bug reporting and fixing process. We link data obtained from bug tracking systems, source code repositories, and mailing lists and applied various metrics to investigate the dynamics of bug communities in 285 projects. The results of our study show that the identity of bug reporters or fixers, the size of the bug community and code are key factors in ensuring quality software. The implications of these findings for bugs governance, software and code quality, empirical research difficulties, and future research directions are also discussed.Index Terms-Open source software projects, open source communities, software bugs, software quality.

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Evaluating the Quality of Open Source Software

Cited by 72 publications

References 25 publications

Comparative Study of the Quality Assessment Tools Based on a Model: Sonar, Squale, EvalMetrics

Comparative Study of the Quality Assessment Tools Based on a Model: Sonar, Squale, EvalMetrics

The Impact of Formal QA Practices on FLOSS Communities – The Case of Mozilla

A Multi-repository Approach to Study the Topology of Open Source Bugs Communities: Implications for Software and Code Quality

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