An Investigation of the Users’ Perception of OSS Quality (original) (raw)

A GQM Plan for the evaluation of the trustworthiness of Open Source Software

2007

The diffusion of the usage of Open-Source Software in industry, in the public administration and in private environment is limited by the lack of a precise notion of trustworthiness. In fact, often people do not know how to evaluate whether an OSS product is “good” enough to be preferred to competing commercial alternatives. In order to ease the diffusion of OSS, it is therefore necessary to identify, quantify, and assess the quality factors related to the software products as well as to the artefacts produced during software development that affect trust in open source software products. This will lead to a quantitative body of knowledge and a set of criteria for establishing trust in open source software. This paper presents a GQM-based approach to the definition of the “trustworthiness” of open source software products. The Definition of the GQM plan is still in progress. Here a preliminary and incomplete version of the plan is reported, however sufficiently detailed to describe ...

Evaluating the quality of open source software

2009

Traditionally, research on quality attributes was either kept under wraps within the organization that performed it, or carried out by outsiders using narrow, black-box techniques. The emergence of open source software has changed this picture allowing us to evaluate both software products and the processes that yield them.

Experimentation on the trustworthiness of Open Source Software

2011

Empirical studies will be carried out in industrial environments. Therefore, experiments will need to be carefully planned, designed, and executed, to minimize the risk of having incomplete or misleading information. Clearly, the second iteration of this task in the second round of experiments will benefit from the experience gathered in the first round of experiments. The empirical studies will be

An empirical investigation of perceived reliability of open source Java programs

2012

Background: Open Source Software (OSS) is used by a continuously growing number of people, both end-users and developers. The quality of OSS is thus an issue of increasing interest. Specifically, OSS stakeholders need to trust OSS with respect to a number of qualities. Objective: This paper focuses on the level of trust that OSS stakeholders have in OSS reliability, one of the most important software qualities.