The Web Scene » Open http://www.cpccci.com/blog Web Design, SEO and Internet Marketing by CPC Computer Consultants - www.cpccci.com and www.cpcwebsolutions.com Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:32:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Study Shows Improvements in Quality of Open Source Code http://www.cpccci.com/blog/2010/03/12/study-shows-improvements-in-quality-of-open-source-code/ http://www.cpccci.com/blog/2010/03/12/study-shows-improvements-in-quality-of-open-source-code/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:26:30 +0000 sparky3887 http://www.cpccci.com/blog/?p=1798 Coverity reports that the number of defects in open source projects is on the decline. Coverity has created a Web site for analyzing the programming code of open source projects. Among the code submitted by open source projects and developers over the past three years, “defect density” has declined 16 percent and some 11,200 defects have been eliminated. Coverity assigns projects to a series of Rungs depending on how many defects they resolve. Defects in Samba, tor, OpenPAM, and Ruby discovered during Rung 1 and 2 have been resolved, and the projects have been granted top-level Rung 3 status. The Web site, which uses static analysis tools, has analyzed more than 60 million unique lines of code from 280 projects. Static analysis is often most helpful for finding “structural ‘anti-patterns’ in code, poor programming practices that can result in performance and security issues like memory leaks and buffer overflows as well as more exotic conditions like errors due to parallel execution of code in a multicore CPU environment,” says Forrester Research analyst Jeffrey Hammond.

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]]> http://www.cpccci.com/blog/2010/03/12/study-shows-improvements-in-quality-of-open-source-code/feed/ 0 Aid Agencies Turn to Open-Source Software http://www.cpccci.com/blog/2009/10/05/aid-agencies-turn-to-open-source-software/ http://www.cpccci.com/blog/2009/10/05/aid-agencies-turn-to-open-source-software/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:36:04 +0000 sparky3887 http://www.cpccci.com/blog/?p=1838 Wesleyan University and Trinity College students have developed Collabbit, software that acts as a virtual emergency response center. Collabbit serves as a central repository for information, using RSS or text messages to send project updates to response workers. The students built a prototype system in three weeks as part of the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) project, which developed applications in response to the Asian tsunami. The American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and Catholic Charities USA, which saw potential in the project, also contributed to the design. The relief agencies recently modeled their response after a hypothetical hurricane strike on a major city, and were pleased with the performance of Collabbit. “Not only did it work, but it demonstrated to those who participated the value of the tool,” says John Berglund, a coordinator with the New York City Salvation Army. HFOSS project director Trishan de Lanerolle says developing the program provided the computer science students with a meaningful outlet for their work. “The work they are doing is something that has an impact,” he says. “It’s not just a classroom exercise where you write your program and then delete it the next day.”

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