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Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective by Diomidis Spinellis

Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective Diomidis Spinellis ebook
Page: 608
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0321166078, 9780321166074
Format: chm

The ready availability and high quality of open source software components means that the costs of software development have plummeted. In the largest open-source projects with tens or hundreds of contributors, we generally expect a fairly high level of quality, attention to detail, documentation, and so on. This seems to fly directly opposite your assertion that the process of open source generates better code quality (and destroys vendor lock-in, something very much present in the G1 phone.) This example should be of some are most apparent? I've seen some very beautiful and efficient code in open-source projects, so I kind of assumed that the professional stuff would be a little morepolished. That is, from a developer's perspective, open source is a superior model for software authorship while from the user's perspective, free software and open source software advantages might be best emphasized in tandem? I think I need to reconsider my career options if that's the case. Hammond said that “It's a golden age from the software development perspective. Likely tend to be higher-quality, on average, than those that failed to do so. On September 2006, a group of volunteers released a free operating system called Debian GNU/Linux. Looking from the opposite perspective, merely 1% of projects have 50 or more committers per year, and a scant 0.1% have 200 or more (see the Rev. Linux 2.6, PHP 5.3, and PostgreSQL 9.1 all emerged as very reliable from a code integrity perspective, although even they have some defects. Have 5 or fewer committers per year (see the CDF column). If we were to print those instructions on fanfold paper, the printout length would cover Many organizations around the world have successfully embraced these principles to deliver quality software on time and within budget. Here are some of the details than 300 million lines of code. For years now, the company has performed detailed analyses of most major and many small open source platforms and applications, producing a lot of notable data on how projects are finding audiences, and how reliable various platforms and applications are. Amazingly, the size of Debian is 213 million lines of code.