Comparing Assessment Methodologies for Free/Open Source Software: OpenBRR and QSOS
PROFES '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Software Process Maturity and the Success of Free Software Projects
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Software Engineering: Evolution and Emerging Technologies
IWSM '09 /Mensura '09 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
The FAMEtool: an automated supporting tool for assessing methodology
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Journal of Systems and Software
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Open Source Software (OSS) has an increasing importance for the software industry. Similar to traditional (closed) software acquisition, OSS acquisition requires an assessment of whether quality is sufficient for the intended purpose. This includes assessing a software component's intrinsic quality, as well as its supplier's maturity (i.e., ability to deliver high quality) and sustainability (i.e., whether the supplier will continue to exist). For traditional software acquisition, established procedures are available for evaluating these aspects. These procedures need to be adapted for OSS projects, because they have no traditional supplier, but an underlying OSS community. The openness of OSS development presents both challenges and opportunities for project evaluation. In particular, a variety of data sources are available that potentially allow for in-depth analysis, but it is not clear how to use them effectively. In this paper, we present an approach toward a comprehensive measurement framework for OSS projects, developed in the EU project QualOSS. This approach takes into account product quality as well as process maturity and sustainability of the underlying OSS community.