Abstract
Trustworthiness is a crucial characteristic when it comes to evaluating any product, even more so for open source software, which is now becoming widely used. The authors conducted a survey to identify the reasons and motivations that lead software companies to adopt or reject open source software; they then ranked, according to importance, the specific trust factors used when selecting an open source software component or product. The motivations and importance ranking of factors might be useful for both developers of open source software (to make their products and components more useful for other stakeholders) and to future prospective open source software users.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 67-75 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | IEEE Software |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Funding
The research presented in this article has been partially funded by the IST project Qu-aliPSo (www.qualipso.eu), financed by the EU in the 6th Framework Programme (IST-034763); the FIRB project ARTDECO, financed by the Italian Ministry of Education and University; and the projects “Elementi metodologici per la specifica, la misura e lo sviluppo di sistemi software basati su modelli” and “La qualità nello sviluppo software,” funded by the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria.
Keywords
- external software qualities
- internal software qualities
- open source software
- pragmatic software engineering
- trustworthiness
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
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