Free and open source software such as Firefox, LibreOffice, and Linux is enjoying increasingly widespread adoption on business and home computers alike, but every once in a while a naysayer will still ...

Fans of free and open source software (FOSS) may recall a report from Coverity last year that found open source code typically has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software ...

The Coverity Scan service, which the study was based on, was started with the US Department of Homeland Security in 2006. The project was designed to give hard answers to questions about open source ...

In his seminal work The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond put forward the claim that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” He dubbed this Linus’ Law, in honor of Linux creator Linus ...

Coverity's data supports claims of a 16 percent improvement or a 21 percent decline in open source code quality, depending on how the results are calculated Data from the Coverity Scan Open Source ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Andres Almiray, a serial open-source ...

Commercial software code bases are significantly more secure than Open Source, according to the latest Coverity scan open source report. Static analysis defect density scans by the software quality ...