Title :
Reliability Growth of Open Source Software Using Defect Analysis
Author :
Syed-Mohamad, Sharifah Mashita ; McBride, Tom
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
We examine two active and popular open source products to observe whether or not open source software has a different defect arrival rate than software developed in-house. The evaluation used two common models of reliability growth models; concave and S-shaped and this analysis shows that open source has a different profile of defect arrival. Further investigation indicated that low level design instability is a possible explanation of the different defect growth profile.
Keywords :
program diagnostics; public domain software; software metrics; software quality; software reliability; S-shaped model; concave model; defect analysis; open source software; reliability growth model; software metrics; software quality; Computer science; Information analysis; Open source software; Programming; Reliability engineering; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software quality; Software reliability; Software testing; Defect Classification; Open Source Software; Software Reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan, Hubei
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3336-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSSE.2008.1085
