Fourth International Workshop on Foundations and Techniques for Open Source Software Certification, Pisa, Italy
17 September 2010 - 17 September 2010
Italy
The Fourth International Workshop on Foundations and Techniques for Open Source Software Certification will take place in Pisa, Italy on 17 and 18 September 2010.
Over the past decade, open source software (OSS) has had a global impact on the way software systems and software-based services are developed, distributed and deployed. OSS has been praised for low development and maintenance costs, rapid code turnover, and reliability.
At the same time, the nature of open source software makes quality assessment, let alone full certification, particularly hard to achieve. This raises important challenges from the technical, methodological and the managerial points of view.
Since the development environment of OSS is open, unconventional and distributed, its integration within complex industrial-strength applications can be problematic. This is, however, an opportunity for rigorous, mathematically-based, methods in software analysis and engineering.
The workshop will bring together researchers from academia and industry who are broadly interested in the quality assessment of open source software projects, ultimately leading to the establishment of coherent certification processes at different levels. Foundational, methodological and pragmatic issues will be addressed through standard technical communications and reports on concrete case studies and experimental data.For further information, please visit:
http://opencert.iist.unu.edu/(opens in new window)
Over the past decade, open source software (OSS) has had a global impact on the way software systems and software-based services are developed, distributed and deployed. OSS has been praised for low development and maintenance costs, rapid code turnover, and reliability.
At the same time, the nature of open source software makes quality assessment, let alone full certification, particularly hard to achieve. This raises important challenges from the technical, methodological and the managerial points of view.
Since the development environment of OSS is open, unconventional and distributed, its integration within complex industrial-strength applications can be problematic. This is, however, an opportunity for rigorous, mathematically-based, methods in software analysis and engineering.
The workshop will bring together researchers from academia and industry who are broadly interested in the quality assessment of open source software projects, ultimately leading to the establishment of coherent certification processes at different levels. Foundational, methodological and pragmatic issues will be addressed through standard technical communications and reports on concrete case studies and experimental data.For further information, please visit:
http://opencert.iist.unu.edu/(opens in new window)