Reliability Growth of Open Source Software Using Defect Analysis
Sharifah Mashita Syed-Mohamad, Tom McBride · 2008
We examine two active and popular open source products to observe whether or not open source software has a different defect arrival rate than software developed in-house. The evaluation used two common models of reliability growth models; concave and S-shaped and this analysis shows that open source has a different profile of defect arrival. Further investigation indicated that low level design instability is a possible explanation of the different defect growth profile.