This paper describes the results of a study where the impact of Object-Oriented design on software quality characteristics is experimentally evaluated. A suite of metrics for OO d...
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...
In industrial practice, information on the software field quality of a product is available too late in the software lifecycle to guide affordable corrective action. An important ...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie Williams, Mladen A. Vo...
An estimation of change-proneness of parts of a software system is an active topic in the area of software engineering. Such estimates can be used to predict changes to different c...
Abstract—Correcting software defects accounts for a significant amount of resources such as time, money and personnel. To be able to focus testing efforts where needed the most,...