[dundee] LibreOffice Quality of Code

[gordon dunlop]

Whilst there has been some arguments over the past couple of months about
the quality of the code in open source software e.g. OpenSSL (Heartbleed)
and Bash (Shellshock), I think LibreOffice users will be interested in the
latest Coverity code defect scan. This is where the code is scanned using
metrics for approx. 50 different types of defects, whilst not absolute, it
gives a very good indicator of code quality. It was found that about 10,500
bugs were fixed over a 2 year period giving a defect density of 0.08
compared with the average of 0.59 for open source software and 0.72 for
proprietary software (2013 report).

The 2014 LibreOffice Coverity report :

http://wpcme.coverity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014-Coverity-Scan-Spotlight-LibreOffice.pdf

The latest news now indicates a defect density of 0.00 :

http://caolanm.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/libreoffice-coverity-defect-density-000.html

For python users a defect density of 0.01 was found in 2013 :

http://wpcme.coverity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013-Coverity-Scan-Spotlight-Python.pdf

For general open source software this is the 2013 report :

http://softwareintegrity.coverity.com/rs/coverity/images/2013-Coverity-Scan-Report.pdf

-- 
Gordon
www.zubenel.org.uk
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