The upstream activities of software development projects are often viewed as both the most important, the least understood, and hence the most problematic. This is particularly no...
Missing or imprecise requirements can lead stakeholders to make incorrect assumptions. A "Not a Problem" defect report (NaP) describes a software behavior that a stakeho...
—Automated regression test suites are an essential software engineering practice: they provide developers with rapid feedback on the impact of changes to a system’s source code...
Empirical studies of software defects rely on links between bug databases and program code repositories. This linkage is typically based on bug-fixes identified in developer-enter...
Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Pr...
Background. Software defect prediction has been one of the central topics of software engineering. Predicted defect counts have been used mainly to assess software quality and est...
Thomas Schulz, Lukasz Radlinski, Thomas Gorges, Wo...