Background: The accurate prediction of where faults are likely to occur in code can help
direct test effort, reduce costs, and improve the quality of software. Objective: We investigate …

We have mapped defects from the bug database of eclipse (one of the largest open-source
projects) to source code locations. The resulting data set lists the number of pre-and post …

During software development it is helpful to obtain early estimates of the defect density of
software components. Such estimates identify fault-prone areas of code requiring further …

A critical factor in work group coordination, communication has been studied extensively.
Yet, we are missing objective evidence of the relationship between successful coordination …

How do design decisions impact the quality of the resulting software? In an empirical study
of 52 ECLIPSE plug-ins, we found that the software design as well as past failure history …

Long-running software systems tend to show degraded performance and an increased
failure occurrence rate. This problem, known as Software Aging, which is typically related to …

In large-scale software development, the increasing complexity of software products poses a
daunting challenge to maintaining software quality. Given this challenge, software fault …

In this article, we present a novel algorithmic method for the calculation of thresholds for a
metric set. To this aim, machine learning and data mining techniques are utilized. We define …

Some previous work began studying the relationship between application domains and
quality, in particular through the prevalence of code and design smells (eg, anti-patterns) …

In any software project, developers need to be aware of existing dependencies and how
they affect their system. We investigated the architecture and dependencies of Windows …