Authors:
Lerina Aversano
and
Maria Tortorella
Affiliation:
University of Sannio, Italy
Keyword(s):
Management, Measurement, Documentation, Performance, Design, Reliability.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Software Engineering
;
Software Engineering Methods and Techniques
;
Software Testing and Maintenance
Abstract:
Evaluation of software quality is one of the main challenges of software engineering. Several researches
proposed in literature the definition of quality models for evaluating software products. However, in the
context of Free/Open Source software, differences in production, distribution and support modality, have to
be considered as additional quality characteristics. In particular, software reliability should be taken into
account before selecting software components. In this direction, this paper evolves a quality model for
Free/Open Source Software projects, called EFFORT – Evaluation Framework for Free/Open souRce
projects for including reliability aspects and presents an empirical study aimed at assessing software
reliability and its evolution along the software project history.