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Assuring Quality and Usability in Open Source Software Development

Category: Software and Web Development, Desktops, Laptops and OS

Tags: software engineering, developers, linux, software

Overview This paper reviews literature on quality and usability assurance in Open Source Software (OSS) development, focusing specifically on OSS that is targeted at a large user population, which does not consist only of OSS developers anymore. In this type of OSS development, the 'Naive', non computer professional users should be taken into account and usability of OSS improved. Furthermore, software quality becomes a very relevant issue to be assured. The paper contrast OSS literature on quality and usability with prescriptive literatures derived from the fields of software engineering and human computer interaction. The paper presents a summary of the current practices utilized to assure quality and usability in OSS development, and recommend practices to be used in this context.

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Publisher: University of Oulu
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Feb 6, 2009
Format: White Papers
Topics: Linux - Open Source, Software Engineering

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