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ACISICIS
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Study on Defect Density of Open Source Software
— Open source software (OSS) development is considered an effective approach to ensuring acceptable levels of software quality. One facet of quality improvement involves the dete...
Cobra Rahmani, Deepak Khazanchi
ICSM
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Empirical Evidence for SOC Dynamics in Software Evolution
We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
Jingwei Wu, Richard C. Holt, Ahmed E. Hassan
ESEM
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Effects of the number of developers on code quality in open source software: a case study
Eleven open source software projects written in C/C++ were analyzed to determine if the number of committing developers impacts code quality. We use cyclomatic complexity, lines o...
Brandon Norick, Justin Krohn, Eben Howard, Ben Wel...
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
An Empirical Study of Evolution of Inheritance in Java OSS
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...
Emal Nasseri, Steve Counsell, M. Shepperd
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Context-based detection of clone-related bugs
Studies show that programs contain much similar code, commonly known as clones. One of the main reasons for introducing clones is programmers' tendency to copy and paste code...
Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su, Edwin Chiu