Testing as a certification approach

• Author(s): Simões, Alberto ; Carvalho, Nuno ; Almeida, J. J.
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/16526
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Open source; Software certification; Software testing; Perl
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

For years, one of the main reasons to buy commercial software instead of adopting open-source applications was the, supposed, guarantee of quality. Unfortunately that was rarely true and, fortunately, open-source projects soon adopted some good practices in their code development that lead to better tested software and therefore higher quality products. In this article we provide a guided tour of some of the best practices that have been implemented in the Perl community in the recent years, as the pathway to a better community-oriented repository of modules, with automatic distributed testing in different platforms and architectures, and with automatic quality measures calculation.