EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF FREE/OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS

Lerina Aversano, Igino Pennino, Maria Tortorella

2010

Abstract

Characterization and evaluation of software quality is one of the main challenge of software engineering. One of currently used standards is ISO/IEC 9126, which defines a quality model for software products. However, in the context of Free/Open Source software, differences in production, distribution and support modality, have to be considered as additional quality characteristics apart from ISO standard ones. This paper defines a quality model for Free/Open Source Software projects, equipped with an evaluation framework, realized by applying the Goal Question Metric paradigm. The evaluation of an open source system has been carried out as case study.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Aversano L., Pennino I. and Tortorella M. (2010). EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF FREE/OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8425-21-8, pages 186-191. DOI: 10.5220/0003000701860191

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase10,
author={Lerina Aversano and Igino Pennino and Maria Tortorella},
title={EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF FREE/OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2010},
pages={186-191},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003000701860191},
isbn={978-989-8425-21-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF FREE/OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS
SN - 978-989-8425-21-8
AU - Aversano L.
AU - Pennino I.
AU - Tortorella M.
PY - 2010
SP - 186
EP - 191
DO - 10.5220/0003000701860191