A survey on open source software trustworthiness

IEEE Software

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 67-75

  Del Bianco, Vieri ^a,b   Lavazza, Luigi ^b   Morasca, Sandro ^c   Taibi, Davide ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science and Communication ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c Department of Computer Science   (Italy)

Author keywords

external software qualities; internal software qualities; open source software; pragmatic software engineering; trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL SOFTWARE QUALITIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PRAGMATIC SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE QUALITY; TRUSTWORTHINESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MOTIVATION; SURVEYS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 80051758696     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2011.93     Document Type: Article

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