—In software development, every change induces a risk. What happens if code changes again and again in some period of time? In an empirical study on Windows Vista, we found that ...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmer...
Which components of a large software system are the most defect-prone? In a study on a large SAP Java system, we evaluated and compared a number of defect predictors, based on cod...
Tilman Holschuh, Markus Pauser, Kim Herzig, Thomas...
Software systems evolve over time due to changes in requirements, optimization of code, fixes for security and reliability bugs etc. Code churn, which measures the changes made to...
Background: Previous research has provided evidence that a combination of static code metrics and software history metrics can be used to predict with surprising success which fil...
Thomas J. Ostrand, Elaine J. Weyuker, Robert M. Be...