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Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective Diomidis Spinellis
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

It cuts out the textbook, allowing So, that's sort of to put it in perspective here. By ensuring a base level of software that is “free” — in the “free as in speech” sense of the word — the GPL has given the open source ecosystem a substantial amount of high quality code that is safely its own. * Page 256: How can I detect memory leaks? Page 26: How can I avoid off-by-one errors? Open source platforms Even though there are these benefits, the average customer prefers reputation over convenience (and sometimes quality). Open-source may be hip, but an awful lot of cultural baggage can get in the way of newsrooms adopting it. * Page 143: Are Trojan Horse attacks for real? All I know is what did happened, and from that perspective I see the GPL, GNU, and FSF making huge advancements and creating the spaces in which free and open source software, under a variety of licenses, thrive. Developing a proprietary in-house CMS – whatever its quality – means that its developers can effectively hold the company to ransom, because they are the only ones in the world who understand it. We often talk about the technological side of Open Source: the quality code, the agile frameworks, the powerful tools. Open-source, however, seemed safer in his view because thousands of eyes are patrolling not just for bad code but security holes. Open Source projects are a source of assistance and guidance to many software engineers seeking to find solutions for problems that they come across building their own projects, or looking for ready-made code that can perform certain functions for them without having to write it from scratch. * Page 158: Where should I look when my application can't handle its workload? We analyzed about 500 I'd be interested in your perspective. But when we asked ourselves a while ago the question if that was enough, we decided to start an initiative around open source code quality. Tracing the history of the What is paramount to open source developers, claims Weber, is the quality of the code. Weber's landmark book analyzes the open source movement from the perspective of political economy. He wrote two award-winning books, Code Reading and Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective. He is a member of the IEEE Software editorial board. Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system.