Formalizing Open Source Software Quality Assurance Model by Identifying Common Features from Open Source Software Projects

摘要

Not long ago many scholars used to believe and write that open source software or projects do not follow any decisive software quality assurance methods as traditional projects do. They would argue that the style adopted by open source communities is more or less ad hoc. However successful open source collaborative projects have over the years developed a typical software development quality assurance methods of their own which may be coined as continuous develop and release state quality assurance model. As a result many have started acknowledging this change and important writings are being published. In this tune the present paper discusses the quality assurance model adopted by few famous open source projects and attempts to strike a formalization of the common steps involved from practices employed by these open source software projects.