QA Under The Open Source Development Model

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 20, 2003 @09:16AM from the sound-the-pdf-klaxon dept.

carrowood writes "A survey was conducted questioning open source developers from both large and small projects concerning their quality assurance practices. A research paper based on the survey result was just published in the Journal of Systems and Software. Some comparisions between QA practices of open vs closed source projects are made with some interesting observations. While on the whole it looks like open source QA can be as good as that in traditional software development, there were a few areas pointed out where the open source community does not do so well, such as regression testing and setting release dates. A thought provoking read."

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Finally a peer reviewed published article! by Homology · 2003-07-20 09:26 · Score: 0, Troll

At last we actually have a peer reviewed published article on Slashdot main page! Actually, I could not believe it at first, but the link confirms it. Beeing somewhat wise, I downloaded the article before it got Slashdoted :-)
Kudos for editors for publishing the story.