Evaluating the Quality of Open Source Software

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 233, Issue C, 2009, Pages 5-28

  Spinellis, Diomidis ^a   Gousios, Georgios ^a   Karakoidas, Vassilios ^a   Louridas, Panagiotis ^a   Adams, Paul J ^b   Samoladas, Ioannis ^c   Stamelos, Ioannis ^c  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b Sirius Corporation Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

open source; process quality attributes; product quality attributes; sqo oss

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; OPEN SYSTEMS;

BLACK BOXES; BUG TRACKING; MAILING LISTS; OPEN SOURCE; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; PROCESS QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; PRODUCT QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE SOURCE CODES; SOURCE CODES; SQO-OSS; VERSION CONTROL SYSTEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 62849089575     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2009.02.058     Document Type: Article

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