Free Software Quality and Security White Paper

2009 Coverity Open Source Scan Report

This research report provides data regarding 2 years of analysis of more than 250 open source projects from the Scan site, created by Coverity with the support of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The site provides Coverity Prevent™ to qualified open source developers. This report explores the overall improvement in the quality and security of open source software and examines the relationship between defect densities, complexity metrics and other code related variables.