A Software Certification Service
Channel: EPFL DSLAB
Date: 27/08/2013

Presented at Symp. on Operating Sys. Design and Implementation (OSDI), October 2010

A public certification service provides an objective assessment of a software product's quality. It analyzes software (either in binary or source code form) and, for each defect found, publishes irrefutable evidence of the defect. Based on the defect density, the service rates each product. Consumers use the ratings to make their purchasing decisions, thus motivating software vendors to compete (also) on reliability.