{"id":1340,"date":"2006-01-18T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/assessing-quality-of-open-source-software\/"},"modified":"2006-01-18T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T12:37:17","slug":"assessing-quality-of-open-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/assessing-quality-of-open-source-software\/","title":{"rendered":"assessing quality of open source software."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\tIn my non-KDE life, I’m working<\/a> on quality
\nmetrics for Open Source software, to be more precise, on the criteria for a standard for quality
\ncertification of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). I’m talking a lot to different people about
\nsuch kind of new stuff, and generally people, especially from the “business world” like the idea
\nvery much. ISVs are missing a certification that offers them the opportunity make a difference,
\ncustomers like the idea of being able to base their choice on hard criteria. My personal opinion is
\nthat such a certificate is needed to show decision makers that Open Source can score very well in
\nthe real world, that quality of Open Source products is not only good, but that it can be measured.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\tBut how would you measure the quality of Open Source products from the point of view of a
\ncustomer? Quite often, you see that the time it takes “the community” to fix a certain bug is
\nmeasured. Well, that’s a beginning, but it’s definitely quite unusable as the only measurement for
\nthe maintainance level of some software component. You have to put that in relation to the severity
\nof the bug, to the “risc level”. I think Open Source quality has to offer quite some more with
\nrespect to quality, and some characteristics of Open Source software make quality assessment a fair
\nbit easier. You don’t need to sign NDAs to be able to review code and to do for example static
\nchecking of the source base. You can have a look at the development process, you’re able to test the
\nsoftware without the need to think about license questions, you’re able to look at history and you
\nmight even take advantage of assessment that has earlier been made Hack, most Open Source components
\neven publish their bug database. So what more do you want?
\n\t\tA lot!<\/b>
Fact is that a lot of Open Source project rely on peer-review as the only
\nmeans to improve and maintain good quality. While that certainly works for quite some projects, I
\nthink it’s about time to apply more methods to maintain and improve quality of Open Source software.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\tIn the near future, I’m planning to blog more often on different aspects of software
\nquality, especially in the Open Source world, to raise the awareness within the community, and
\nsimply because it’s an interesting subject with a lot of different ways to approach it. So stay
\ntuned.\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my non-KDE life, I’m working on quality metrics for Open Source software, to be more precise, on the criteria for a standard for quality certification of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). I’m talking a lot to different people about such kind of new stuff, and generally people, especially from the “business world” like the idea… Continue reading assessing quality of open source software.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}