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Call for Quality: Open Source Software Quality Observation

2006; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/0-387-34226-5_6

1861-2288

Adriaan de Groot, Sebastian Kügler, Paul Adams, Georgios Gousios,

Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

This paper describes how a Software Quality Observatory works to evaluate and quantify the quality of an Open Source project. Such a quality measurement can be used by organizations intending to deploy an Open Source solution to pick one of the available projects for use. We offer a case description of how the Software Quality Observatory will be applied to the KDE project to document and evaluate its quality practices for outsiders.