Practical assessment of the models for identification of defect-prone classes in object-oriented commercial systems using design metrics

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-12

  Succi, Giancarlo ^a,b   Pedrycz, Witold ^a   Stefanovic, Milorad ^a   Miller, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POISSON EQUATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0037440461     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(02)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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