Call for Quality: Open Source Software Quality Observation

Groot, Adriaan de; Kügler, Sebastian; Adams, Paul; Gousios, Georgios

doi:10.1007/0-387-34226-5_6

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“…It is not clear that these factors, even when combined, would give an adequate definition of quality. As a result many researchers have used different project characteristics as a substitute measure of the quality of a project, including longevity [13], operational software characteristics [31], number of open bugs [5], etc. None of these properties measure code quality directly (e.g.…”

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An Exploration of Code Quality in FOSS Projects

Ahmed¹,

Ghorashi²,

Jensen³

2014

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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It is a widely held belief that Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) development leads to the creation of software with the same, if not higher quality compared to that created using proprietary software development models. However there is little research on evaluating the quality of FOSS code, and the impact of project characteristics such as age, number of core developers, code-base size, etc. In this exploratory study, we examined 110 FOSS projects, measuring the quality of the code and architectural design using code smells. We found that, contrary to our expectations, the overall quality of the code is not affected by the size of the code base, but that it was negatively impacted by the growth of the number of code contributors. Our results also show that projects with more core developers don't necessarily have better code quality.

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An Exploration of Code Quality in FOSS Projects

Ahmed¹,

Ghorashi²,

Jensen³

2014

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…They advocated the necessity of usability awareness among OSS developers. De Groot et al [10] observed that not only has the participation grown in OSS development, but number of users and their requirements have increased tremendously as well in the last decade. The authors mentioned that although dozens of OSS applications are available, which differ in quality features and requirements, the end user finds it very difficult to choose one for a given problem.…”

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Addressing User Requirements in Open Source Software: The Role of Online Forums

Raza¹,

Capretz²

2014

Journal of Computing Science and Engineering

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User satisfaction has always been important in the success of software, regardless of whether it is closed and proprietary or open source software (OSS). OSS users are geographically distributed and include technical as well as novice users. However, it is generally believed that if OSS was more usable, its popularity would increase tremendously. Hence, users and their requirements need to be addressed in the priorities of an OSS environment. Online public forums are a major medium of communication for the OSS community. The research model of this work studies the relationship between user requirements in open source software and online public forums. To conduct this research, we used a dataset consisting of 100 open source software projects in different categories. The results show that online forums play a significant role in identifying user requirements and addressing their requests in open source software.

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“…Users and developers are limited resources within the OSS environment, particularly so with regards to develoeprs [8]. However, several major OSS projects have been noted to be particularly successful at recruiting new developers [16,17].…”

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Detecting Agility of Open Source Projects Through Developer Engagement

Adams

Capiluppi

Groot

2008

IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing

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Abstract. The principles behind the agile development methods and common practise within the Open Source community are vastly different. In recent years there has been a rise of interest in these, in order to detect and inform on areas of compatible shared practises. This paper argues that it is possible to quantify the level of agility displayed by Open Source projects. An indicator of agility, the Mean Developer Engagement (MDE) metric is introduced and tested through the analysis of public project data. Projects sampled from two repositories (KDE and SourceForge) are studied and a hypothesis is formulated: projects from the two samples display a similar level of MDE. This paper provides two main contributions: first, the MDE metric is shown to vary significantly between the KDE and SourceForge projects. Second, by combining MDE with a project's lifespan, it is also shown that SourceForge projects have insufficient uptake of new developers resulting in more active, shorter, initial activity, and in a quicker "burning out" of the projects.

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Call for Quality: Open Source Software Quality Observation

Cited by 16 publications

References 3 publications

An Exploration of Code Quality in FOSS Projects

An Exploration of Code Quality in FOSS Projects

Addressing User Requirements in Open Source Software: The Role of Online Forums

Detecting Agility of Open Source Projects Through Developer Engagement

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