Testing as a certification approach

• Autor(es): Simões, Alberto ; Carvalho, Nuno ; Almeida, J. J.
• Data: 2010
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/16526
• Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Assunto(s): Open source; Software certification; Software testing; Perl
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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.