Introducing "HEALTH" Perspective in Open Source Web-Enginerring Software Projects Based on Project Data Analysis.
Dindin Wahyudin, Alexander Schatten, Khabib Mustofa, Stefan Biffl, A Min Tjoa · Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services · 2006
There are many initiatives of open-source software which have success stories for web engineering such as Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server and Python. Many of these projects have enjoyed wide industry adoption for web-based applications. For the Open Source Software (OSS) community and observer, it is important to determine whether a (new) project initiative is worthwhile, i.e., warrants a closer look and/or sustained support. This paper proposes an evaluation process and concept for ”health” indicators that can help getting an overview on a large number of OSS projects. For initial empirical evaluation of the concept, we apply the indicators to well-known OSS projects and discuss the results with OSS experts to investigate the external validity of the indicators.