A Survey on Open Source Software Trustworthiness

by Vieri del Bianco, Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca, and Davide Taibi

Over the past few years, users in many sectors have increasingly adopted open source software (OSS) products. No longer the product of lone coders, industrial-strength OSS is often developed by organized communities and sometimes even by major software companies applying the same rigorous processes and high-quality standards they use when developing their commercial products. However, many software companies and users alike are still somewhat reluctant to massively adopt OSS in their mainstream activities, primarily because they're unsure if and to what extent they can actually trust OSS. Trust must be built, and, as with any offering, OSS products would probably be more easily trusted when their claims are backed by reliable evidence. FULL ARTICLE (login required) »