Towards certifying the testing process of open-source software: New challenges or old methodologies?

Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development, FLOSS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 25-30

  Morasca, Sandro ^a   Taibi, Davide ^a   Tosi, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED SOURCE SOFTWARES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; OSS SYSTEMS; RESEARCH FIELDS; TESTING PLAN; TESTING PROCESS; TESTING STRATEGIES;

OPEN SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; TEST FACILITIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 70349739151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FLOSS.2009.5071356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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