Thread: PostgreSQL Quality Evaluation

I have been talking to Rix Groenboom of reasoning.com.
He presented a paper at NLUUG in may about the quality
of open source projects.  That talk evaluated reported on
the software quality inspections of Open Source code,
including MySQL v4.0.16, Apache v2.1, Tomcat v4.1.24 code
and the Linux TCP/IP stack.

Abstract: http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj04/abstracts/ab.html?id=40
Papers: http://www.reasoning.com/downloads.html

Reasoning is interested in doing a white paper evaluation
on PostgreSQL.  I am not yet sure what sort of cooperation
on our side this will entail or if it will get off the
ground.  But I'm planning to encourage them to do the
evaluation and facilitate any cooperation we need to
provide.

Since I'm sure we'll evaluate well, this will be a good
piece of collateral for us in the long run.

--elein
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I have always depended on the [QA] of strangers.

> elein wrote...
>
> Reasoning is interested in doing a white paper evaluation
> on PostgreSQL.  I am not yet sure what sort of cooperation
> on our side this will entail or if it will get off the
> ground.  But I'm planning to encourage them to do the
> evaluation and facilitate any cooperation we need to
> provide.
>

Now is the right time to do it, so we can fix any issues uncovered.

If we can then fix them all during beta, Reasoning can publish their results
at same time as 8.0 goes production.

If they do find issues, it will be good for them to say "we found N issues"
and good for PostgreSQL community, since an external assessment will be
good, as well as saying how efficient out beta programme is/was.

Best regards, Simon Riggs

Simon Riggs wrote:
> Now is the right time to do it, so we can fix any issues uncovered.
>
> If we can then fix them all during beta, Reasoning can publish their
> results at same time as 8.0 goes production.

Quality assessment usually isn't about counting the number of bugs in a
program.  It's about defining procedures and making sure they're
followed.  This is usually difficult with open-source projects; I'll be
interested to see what they have to say.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/