Deze lezing zal in het Nederlands worden gegeven.
This presentation will be in Dutch.

Proponents of Open Source software have long claimed that their code is of higher quality than the equivalent commercial software. Opponents of Open Source argue just the opposite: that Open Source software is inherently unreliable. There is little independent, objective data available to support either view.

Because the Open Source model represents such a fundamentally different way in which software is developed, sold, and maintained, it encourages activities that are not common in the development of commercial code. During the session, the speaker will examine some of these activities, compare the activities to the commercial software development approach, and elaborate on their impact on the resulting code quality.

The speaker will then address Open Source enthusiasts claim that the Open Source model produces better quality software than commercial software development. He will put this theory to the test through the presentation of objective, third party reports based upon several recent software inspections of Open Source code, including MySQL v4.0.16, Apache v2.1, Tomcat v4.1.24 code and the Linux TCP/IP stack. The speaker will share with the audience specific metrics of each software analysis and details of the defect reports.

Rix Groenboom is European support manager for Reasoning Inc., a company that offers global inspection and migration services. In this capacity, he has been involved in many automated software inspection projects for Fortune 2000 companies. Groenboom holds a MSc and PhD in Computing Science from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), and has written over 30 publications on the use of formal methods in imbedded and knowledge-based systems development. His special areas of interest are in the use of formal languages for the specification, design and validation of software applications.