Techniques and processes for improving the quality and performance of open-source software (2006)
| Venue: | Software Process: Improvement and Practice |
| Citations: | 3 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Yilmaz06techniquesand,
author = {Cemal Yilmaz and Atif M. Memon and Adam Porter and Arvind S. Krishna and Douglas C. Schmidt and Aniruddha Gokhale},
title = {Techniques and processes for improving the quality and performance of open-source software},
booktitle = {Software Process: Improvement and Practice},
year = {2006},
publisher = {John Wiley & Sons}
}
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Abstract
Open-source development processes have emerged as an effective approach to reduce cycle-time and decrease design, implementation, and quality assurance costs for certain types of software, particularly systems infrastructure software, such as operating systems, compilers and language processing tools, editors, and middleware. This paper presents two contributions to the study of open-source software processes. First, we describe key challenges of open-source software and illustrate how quality assurance (QA) processes – specifically those tailored to open-source development – help mitigate these challenges better than traditional closed-source processes do. Second, we summarize results of empirical studies that evaluate how our distributed continuous quality assurance (DCQA) techniques and processes help to resolve key challenges of developing and validating open-source software. Our results show that: (1) creating models and setting up the DCQA process improves developer understanding of open-source software, (2) improving test diversity in terms of platform configurations helps to find defects missed during conventional testing, and (3) centralizing control of QA activities helps to eliminate redundant QA work.
