<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diomidis Spinellis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gousios, Georgios</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vassilios Karakoidas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Panagiotis Louridas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paul J. Adams</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Samoladas, Ioannis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ioannis Stamelos</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evaluating the Quality of Open Source Software</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">bug tracking system</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">email</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">email archives</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mailing list</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">metrics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">open source</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">process quality attributes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">product quality attributes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">source code</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SQO-OSS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">wiki</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">03/2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2008-SQM-SQOOSS/html/SGKL09.html</style></url></web-urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ifipwg213.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/entcs-sqooss.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Reengineering Forum</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">233</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5–28</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Traditionally, research on quality attributes was either kept under wraps within the organization that performed it, or carried out by outsiders using narrow, black-box techniques. The emergence of open source software has changed this picture allowing us to evaluate both software products and the processes that yield them. Thus, the software source code and the associated data stored in the version control system, the bug tracking databases, the mailing lists, and the wikis allow us to evaluate quality in a transparent way. Even better, the large number of (often competing) open source projects makes it possible to contrast the quality of comparable systems serving the same domain. Furthermore, by combining historical source code snapshots with significant events, such as bug discoveries and fixes, we can further dig into the causes and effects of problems. Here we present motivating examples, tools, and techniques that can be used to evaluate the quality of open source (and by extension also proprietary) software. </style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&quot;the software source code and the associated data stored in the version control system, the bug tracking databases, the mailing lists, and the wikis allow us to evaluate quality in a transparent way&quot;
&quot;The data collection system collects the raw data from open source projects&quot;
Mailing lists are measured in: Number of unique subscribers, Number of messages in user/support list per month, Number of messages in developers list per month, Average thread depth</style></notes></record></records></xml>