An empirical investigation of perceived reliability of open source Java programs
Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca, Davide Taibi, Davide Tosi · 2012
Background: Open Source Software (OSS) is used by a continuously growing number of people, both end-users and developers. The quality of OSS is thus an issue of increasing interest. Specifically, OSS stakeholders need to trust OSS with respect to a number of qualities.