Internal Quality Evolution of Open-Source Software Systems

Software Quality Assessment of Open Source Software

The open source software ecosystem comprises more than a hundred thousand applications of varying quality. Individuals and organizations wishing to use open source software packages have scarce objective data to evaluate their quality. However, open source development projects by definition allow anybody to read, and therefore evaluate their source code. In addition, most projects also publish ...

Understanding Open Source Software Evolution

Evaluating the Evolution of Small Scale Open Source Software Systems

For real-world software to remain satisfactory to its stakeholders requires its continual enhancement and adaptation. Acceptance of this phenomenon, termed software evolution, as intrinsic to real world software has led to an increasing interest in disciplined and systematic planning, management and improvement of the evolution process. Almost all of the previous work on software evolution has ...

Evolution of Open Source Software Systems – A Large-Scale Investigation

In this paper, the evolution of a large sample of open source software projects will be analysed. The evolution of commercial systems has been an issue that has long been a center of research, thus a coherent theoretical framework of software evolution has been developed and empirically tested. Therefore these results can be used to compare the situation in open source projects to the evolution...

Software Quality in Open Source Software Ecosystems

growing research literature, OSS has garnered much support in the software community. Indeed, from the early days of GNU software, to X Window System, to Linux and its utilities, and more recently the Apache Software Project, OSS has changed the way software is developed and used. As the deployment of OSS increases, the issue of its quality with respect to its stakeholders arises. We contend th...