Closed source versus open source in a model of software bug dynamics Export

@misc{citeulike:312235, abstract = {We introduce a simple microscopic description of software bug dynamics where users, programmers and a maintainer interact through a given program, with a particular emphasis on bug creation, detection and fixing. When the program is written from scratch, the first phase of development is characterized by a fast decline of the number of bugs, followed by a slow phase where most bugs have been fixed, hence, are hard to find. Releasing immediately bug fixes speeds up the debugging process, which substantiates bazaar open-source methodology. We provide a mathematical analysis that supports our numerical simulations. Finally, we apply our model to Linux history and determine the existence of a lower bound to the quality of its programmers.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Challet, Damien and Le Du, Yann}, citeulike-article-id = {312235}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306511}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0306511}, day = {5}, eprint = {cond-mat/0306511}, keywords = {algorithms, self-organization, swarming}, month = {Sep}, posted-at = {2005-09-06 22:35:23}, priority = {2}, title = {Closed source versus open source in a model of software bug dynamics}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306511}, year = {2005} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:312235 L3 - citeulike-article-id:312235 N2 - We introduce a simple microscopic description of software bug dynamics where users, programmers and a maintainer interact through a given program, with a particular emphasis on bug creation, detection and fixing. When the program is written from scratch, the first phase of development is characterized by a fast decline of the number of bugs, followed by a slow phase where most bugs have been fixed, hence, are hard to find. Releasing immediately bug fixes speeds up the debugging process, which substantiates bazaar open-source methodology. We provide a mathematical analysis that supports our numerical simulations. Finally, we apply our model to Linux history and determine the existence of a lower bound to the quality of its programmers. TI - Closed source versus open source in a model of software bug dynamics KW - algorithms KW - self-organization KW - swarming AU - Challet, Damien AU - Le Du, Yann PY - 2005/Sep/05/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306511 ER -