The Application of DEA to Measure the Efficiency of Open Source Security Tool Production
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There are a wide variety of open source security tools available for deployment within the enterprise. Despite the success of many security-based open source software (OSS) projects, large numbers of these projects become inactive and are eventually abandoned. The purpose of this research is to develop an empirical study to determine the relative efficiency of security-based OSS projects. A security-based OSS projects utilize two key resources in their development, the number of software developers and the number of users submitting bugs found when using OSS code. This research develops a model to measure the relative efficiency of each project and determines the number of inefficient projects benchmarking each efficient project. The result of this research is a model that can be used by project developers to evaluate the relative efficiency of their projects. Our empirical study will be based on the analysis of publicly available data from a repository of OSS project at sourceforge.net.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007