Towards a metric for Open Source Software Quality

2015/11/03 by Siraj Ahmed Shaikh, Shaikh, Siraj, António Cerone +1 · 5 citations
Computer Science · #Software Engineering Research #Open Source Software Innovations #Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

paper · pdf · doi:10.14279/tuj.eceasst.20.279

Abstract

Software quality is more than just conformance to a set of requirements and represents many attributes related to each other that make up a piece of software. An important part of this measure depends on the underlying processes and methodologies used in the engineering of software. We present an early exposition towards a quality model for open source software (OSS). We describe some basic notions of quality for OSS and present a basic model, where quality notions consist of various factors that influence such quality. The purpose of this effort is ultimately to develop a quantitative metric for software quality.

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