Investigating the factors that influence the quality of open source systems

Open Source Software (OSS) has impacted software industry and recently became extremely popular. Many agencies, especially the Malaysian government agencies are capitalizing on open source projects due to the merit it offers. Due to the vast usage in the industry and government administrations,...

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Main Authors:	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham, Arsat, Nadiah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	T Technology (General)
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spelling	iium-428952017-09-21T02:32:09Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/42895/ Investigating the factors that influence the quality of open source systems Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Arsat, Nadiah T Technology (General) Open Source Software (OSS) has impacted software industry and recently became extremely popular. Many agencies, especially the Malaysian government agencies are capitalizing on open source projects due to the merit it offers. Due to the vast usage in the industry and government administrations, there is a colossal need to investigate on the quality of applications. Therefore, this research will study the quality factors of OSS used by Malaysian government, namely MyMeeting, and MyTaskManager. In this research, McCall’s Quality Factor Model is used as a quality model and it emphasizes on quality factors such as maintainability, correctness, reliability, efficiency and usability. This research utilizes six object-oriented metrics by Chidamber and Kemerer (CK) to measure the quality factors of OSS. The metrics were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Results from the data analysis show that coupling and complexity influence the class size. 2014-11-17 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42895/1/42895.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42895/4/42895_Investigating%20the%20factors%20that%20influence%20the%20quality%20of%20open%20source%20systems.SCOPUSpdf.pdf Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham and Arsat, Nadiah (2014) Investigating the factors that influence the quality of open source systems. In: 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for The Muslim World (ICT4M 2014), 17th - 19th November 2014, Kuching, Sarawak. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7020589
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description	Open Source Software (OSS) has impacted software industry and recently became extremely popular. Many agencies, especially the Malaysian government agencies are capitalizing on open source projects due to the merit it offers. Due to the vast usage in the industry and government administrations, there is a colossal need to investigate on the quality of applications. Therefore, this research will study the quality factors of OSS used by Malaysian government, namely MyMeeting, and MyTaskManager. In this research, McCall’s Quality Factor Model is used as a quality model and it emphasizes on quality factors such as maintainability, correctness, reliability, efficiency and usability. This research utilizes six object-oriented metrics by Chidamber and Kemerer (CK) to measure the quality factors of OSS. The metrics were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Results from the data analysis show that coupling and complexity influence the class size.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Arsat, Nadiah
author_facet	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Arsat, Nadiah
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title	Investigating the factors that influence the quality of open source systems
title_short	Investigating the factors that influence the quality of open source systems
title_full	Investigating the factors that influence the quality of open source systems
title_fullStr	Investigating the factors that influence the quality of open source systems
title_full_unstemmed	Investigating the factors that influence the quality of open source systems
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