The Role of Community Source Software in University Business Models
Charles W. Butler, Don E. Albrecht · Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice · 2012
The Kauli Foundation provides open source community software for universities. The foundation is comprised of many universities, colleges, and commercial firms who have joined together to develop an application portfolio for higher education administration. This research studied the software quality of the Financial System which is one of eight Kauli applications. Specifically, four Financial System modules were analyzed including Budget Construction (BC), Capital Asset Builder (CAB), Capital Asset Management (CAM), and Purchasing/Account Payable (PUR/AP). The analysis of software quality utilized NASA as a reference model. The NASA reference model uses three software metrics for determining software quality and reliability.