Table 2 OSS evaluation indicator proposed in the prior studies. “Evaluation Indicator” denotes the used evaluation indicators for investigation, “Static” indicates whether the authors used data at a single point to represent the whole time
From: Evaluation indicators for open-source software: a review
Study | Year | Evaluation Indicator | Static |
|---|---|---|---|
Project activity | |||
Crowston et al.(2004) | 2004 | Developer number | Yes |
Bug fixing time | |||
Download number | |||
Developer type | |||
Developer satisfaction | |||
User satisfaction | |||
Crowston et al. (2003) | 2003 | Users’ participation | Yes |
Quality | |||
Project process | |||
Project recognition codes | |||
Developer number | |||
Garousi (2009) | 2009 | Download number | No |
Bug-fixing performance | |||
License type | |||
Project age | |||
Sen (2006) | 2006 | Project status | Yes |
Potential users | |||
Project system compatibility | |||
Concurrent Versioning Systems (CVS) code commit | |||
Download number | |||
Grewal (2006) | 2006 | Bugs closed per month | Yes |
Support requests per month | |||
Number of page views | |||
Add new features | |||
Raymond (1999) | 1999 | Fix bugs | Yes |
Release new versions | |||
Output of each contributor | |||
License type | |||
Fershtman et al. (2004) | 2004 | Program language | Yes |
Operating system | |||
Target users | |||
Ranking of activity percentile | |||
Lerner (2005) | 2005 | Developers number | Yes |
Bugs or errors number | |||
Midha et al. (2012) | 2012 | Download number | No |
Concurrent Versioning Systems (CVS) code commit | |||
Colazo (2005) | 2005 | Developer number | Yes |
Developer contribution | |||
Tsay et al. (2012) | 2012 | Developer interest | No |
Developer contribution | |||
Project activity | |||
Subramaniam (2009) | 2009 | Developer interest | Yes |
User interest | |||
Project size | |||
Beecher (2008) | 2008 | Developer | Yes |
Project activity | |||
Hit number | |||
Comino et al. (2007) | 2007 | Project status | Yes |
Giuri et al. (2004) | Developer capability | Yes | |
Project age | |||
Schweik (2009) | 2009 | Project activity | Yes |
Downloads number | |||
Developer interest | |||
Project activity | |||
Ghapanchi (2015) | 2015 | User interest | Yes |
Developer pernancement | |||
Developer pernancement | |||
Chang (2018) | 2018 | Developer satisfaction | Yes |
Project status | |||
Feitelson et al. (2006) | 2006 | Download number | Yes |
Israeli and Feitelson (2007) | 2007 | Download number | Yes |
Release new version | |||
Emanuel et al. (2010) | 2010 | Download number | Yes |
Developer contribution | |||
Ke et al. (2011) | 2011 | Developer capability | Yes |
User satisfaction | |||
Margan and Čandrlić (2015) | 2015 | Developer capability | Yes |
Developer interest | |||
Developer number | |||
Joy et al. (2018) | 2018 | Project size | Yes |
Project age | |||
Peng (2019 | 2019 | Connected projects | Yes |
Watching number | |||
Crowston and Shamshurin (2017) | 2017 | Volume of communication | Yes |