Call for Quality: Open Source Software Quality Observation

by de Groot, Adriaan and Kügler, Sebastian and Adams, Paul and Gousios, Georgios

edited by Damiani, Ernesto and Fitzgerald, Brian and Scacchi, Walt and Scotto, Marco and Succi, Giancarlo

You can get a pre-print version from here.

Abstract

This paper describes how a Software Quality Observatory works to evaluate and quantify the quality of an Open Source project. Such a quality mea- surement can be used by organizations intending to deploy an Open Source solution to pick one of the available projects for use. We offer a case description of how the Software Quality Observatory will be applied to the KDE project to document and evaluate its quality practices for outsiders.

Bibtex record

@incollection{GKAG06B,
  author = {de Groot, Adriaan and K\"{u}gler, Sebastian and Adams, Paul and Gousios, Georgios},
  editor = {Damiani, Ernesto and Fitzgerald, Brian and Scacchi, Walt and Scotto, Marco and Succi, Giancarlo},
  title = {Call for Quality: Open Source Software Quality Observation},
  booktitle = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing},
  isbn = {978-0-387-34225-2},
  pages = {57--62},
  year = {2006},
  volume = {203/2006},
  publisher = {Springer Boston},
  url = {/pub/open-source software-quality-observation.pdf}
}

The paper