Identifying and characterizing change-prone classes in two large-scale open-source products

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-73

  Gunes Koru A ^a   Liu, Hongfang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Change prone classes; Object oriented programming; Open source development; Software maintenance; Static metrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COSTS; DATA STRUCTURES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CHANGE PRONE CLASSES; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PRIORITIZATION STRATEGY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33750997274     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.05.017     Document Type: Article

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