The SQO-OSS Quality Model: Measurement Based Open Source Software Evaluation

by Samoladas, Ioannis and Gousios, Georgios and Spinellis, Diomidis and Stamelos, Ioannis

edited by Damiani, Ernesto and Succi, Giancarlo

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Abstract

Software quality evaluation has always been an important part of software business. The quality evaluation process is usually based on hierarchical quality models that measure various aspects of software quality and deduce a characterization of the product quality being evaluated. The particular nature of open source software has rendered existing models unsuitable for detailed quality evaluations. In this paper, we present a hierarchical quality model that evaluates source code and community processes, based on automatic calculation of metric values and correlation of those to a set of predefined quality profiles.

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@inproceedings{SGSS08,
  address = {Boston},
  author = {Samoladas, Ioannis and Gousios, Georgios and Spinellis, Diomidis and Stamelos, Ioannis},
  editor = {Damiani, Ernesto and Succi, Giancarlo},
  location = {Milan, Italy},
  month = sep,
  organization = {IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Working Group 2.3 on Open Source Software},
  pages = {237-248},
  publisher = {Springer},
  title = {The {SQO-OSS} Quality Model: Measurement Based Open Source Software Evaluation},
  booktitle = {Open Source Development, Communities and Quality},
  volume = {275},
  doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_19},
  year = {2008},
  url = {/pub/sqo-oss-quality-model-measurement-based-open-source-software-evaluation.pdf}
}

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