Bug shallowness in open-source, Macintosh software
Software Engineering
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Central to the power of open-source software is bug shallowness, the relative ease of finding and fixing bugs. The open-source movement began with Unix software, so many users were also programmers capable of finding and fixing bugs given the source code. But as the open-source movement reaches the Macintosh platform, bugs may not be shallow because few Macintosh users are programmers. Based on reports from open-source developers, I, however, conclude that that bugs are as shallow in open-source, Macintosh software as in any other open-source software.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0407051,
title = {Bug shallowness in open-source, Macintosh software},
author = {G Gordon Worley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0407051},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
added description of bug shallowness; corrected abstract (5 pages, PDF only (no LaTeX))