Quality Prediction of Open Source Software for e-Governance Project

The government organizations in Africa, Asia and South America are adopting OSS solutions because of its low cost and availability of cheap skilled programmers in their countries to customize the software to their needs. In a study conducted to track the usage of OSS, it was found that OSS is extensively promoted in countries like India, China and Taiwan followed by South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand in Asia. In South America, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina are encouraging the use of OSS in all sectors of the government whereas in Africa, South Africa is extensively reaping the benefits of OSS followed by Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria (Noronha, 2003).Many developing countries have a large pool of easily available skilled personnel who can modify the source codes of an OSS to meet the specific needs of the government organizations. The various types of OSS prove to be extremely useful in promoting e-government. In this paper our objective is to propose a methodology which can be used to analyze the existing quality of the OSS as well as to predict the quality of the OSS after customization.