Quality assessment models for open source projects hosted on modern web-based forges: A review

Abstract

Selection and adoption of appropriate open source application is quite critical for an organization as the open source projects exhibit a quality range from very low to very high. There exist various open source software quality assessment models that aid organizations in measuring the quality of a software project and to select a particular software application based upon some quality score. Commercial involvement and usage of social networking features by modern web-based open source project hosting sites has given rise to new challenges for existing open source software quality assessment models. This paper verifies that whether the existing open source software quality assessment models are able to address these challenges or not. Answering the formulated research questions, a summary of findings we obtained is that existing open source quality assessment models do not consider some of the factors that influence the quality of open source projects hosted on modern web-based forges. Hence there is a need for a quality assessment model addressing the shortcomings of existing models.