Managing Quality in the Free and Open Source Software Community

Tawileh, Anas, Ivins, Wendy Katherine, Rana, Omer Farooq

and McIntosh, Stephen 2006. Managing Quality in the Free and Open Source Software Community. Presented at: Connecting the Americas: 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems( AMCIS 2006), Acapulco, México, 4-6 August 2006.

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Abstract

The Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) paradigm has attracted much attention in the past few years. Software developed by the community is considered to be a serious rival to proprietary software developed by commercial organizations. While the adoption levels of F/OSS artifacts within the community are quite high, end users from outside the community are still skeptical about adopting F/OSS. Claims against the adoption of F/OSS are usually rooted in the apparent lack of quality assurance mechanisms required to guarantee the protection of users' interests. This paper aims to promote higher adoption of F/OSS artifacts outside the developers' community by exploring possibilities to provide appropriate assurances that F/OSS artifacts will meet the quality levels expected by users.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Completion
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Schools > Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Related URLs:	Organisation Project
Last Modified:	10 Sep 2025 21:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/45588

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