Predicting OSS trustworthiness on the basis of elementary code assessment
Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca, Davide Taibi, Davide Tosi · 2010
Background. Open Source Software (OSS) provides increasingly serious and viable alternatives to traditional closed source software. The number of OSS users is continuously growing, as is the number of potential users that are interested in evaluating the quality of OSS. The latter would greatly benefit from simple methods for evaluating the trustworthiness of OSS.