Impact of installation counts on perceived quality: A case study on Debian

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 219-228

  Herraiz, Israel ^a   Shihab, Emad ^b   Nguyen, Thanh H D ^b   Hassan, Ahmed E ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Debian; defects; popularity; quality

Indexed keywords

DEBIAN; DEFECT PREDICTION; DEFECT REPORTS; GNU/LINUX; NATURE OF SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PERCEIVED QUALITY; POPULARITY; RESEARCH STUDIES; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TESTING PROCESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DEFECTS;

EID: 83455168884     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2011.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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