Trustworthiness of Collaborative Open Source Software Quality Assessment

Jean-Marc Seigneur

3rd International ICST Workshop on the Value of Security through Collaboration

Research Article

Trustworthiness of Collaborative Open Source Software Quality Assessment

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550301,
    author={Jean-Marc Seigneur},
    title={Trustworthiness of Collaborative Open Source Software Quality Assessment},
    proceedings={3rd International ICST Workshop on the Value of Security through Collaboration},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={SECOVAL},
    year={2008},
    month={6},
    keywords={Open source software collaborative quality assessement trust},
    doi={10.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550301}
}

Jean-Marc Seigneur
Year: 2008
Trustworthiness of Collaborative Open Source Software Quality Assessment
SECOVAL
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550301

Jean-Marc Seigneur¹^,*

1: University of Geneva Switzerland

*Contact email: Jean-Marc.Seigneur@trustcomp.org

Abstract

Open Source Software (OSS) projects have the unique opportunity to reach an unprecedented level of software quality by tapping into its community and collaborative power. However, the community process of collaborative software Quality Assessment (QA) may not reach its full potential or worse be easily jeopardised by malevolent entities because there is a lack of protection mechanisms, easy-to-use enabling mechanisms and clear incentives. We propose such mechanisms as part of a decentralised collaborative test and QA framework centred on the OSS actors.

Keywords: Open source software collaborative quality assessement trust

Published: 2008-06-24
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-08-03

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550301