Modeling the effect of size on defect proneness for open-source software

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 115-124

  Koru, A Güneş ^a   Zhang, Dongsong ^a   Liu, Hongfang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR DETECTION; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DEFECT-PRONENESS; OPEN SOURCE MODULES; QUALITY MODELING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548803818     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSECOMPANION.2007.54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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