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Learn more about open source software with Ron Bongo and discover how a new research study is highlighting the significant improvements in open source code quality and how it can be beneficial to commercial or business users.

In a recent study by Coverity, the tools vendor for analyzing programming code commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security in 2006 to help boost the quality of open source applications, it was reported that the quality of open source code is improving and the overall number of defects decreasing. The use of open source software is increasing among government agencies, prompting Homeland Security to check for any issues with their continued use.

Open source projects and developers can send their code to Coverity through their Scan site for analysis and to check the number of potential defects the code has. During the past three years, the density of code defects dropped by as much as 16%, with up to 11,200 defects eliminated.  Since it started, the Scan site has checked more than 60 million unique lines of code coming from over 280 open source projects.

While the analysis of open source code does not necessarily mean that a particular commercial or business process utilizing the application is working correctly, it is a good tool to check if the code is technically solid or not such as looking for “structural anti-patterns” within the code. Analysis of the code will also determine if the application was programmed using the best programming practices. Without proper programming practices, applications can be prone to performance and security issues.  

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