Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Source code coupling and change history are two important data sources for change coupling analysis. The popularity of public open source projects in recent years makes both sourc...
Abstract. The build architecture of legacy C/C++ software systems, groups program files in directories to represent logical components. The interfaces of these components are loos...
Homayoun Dayani-Fard, Yijun Yu, John Mylopoulos, P...
Predicting the incidence of faults in code has been commonly associated with measuring complexity. In this paper, we propose complexity metrics that are based on the code change p...
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