Exploring the relationship of a file's history and its fault-proneness: An empirical method and its application to open source programs

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 539-558

  Illes Seifert, Timea ^a   Paech, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Software history evolution; Software testing

Indexed keywords

DEFECT COUNTS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EMPIRICAL METHOD; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EMPIRICAL STUDY; FAULT-PRONE FILES; OPEN SOURCES; OPEN-SOURCE PROGRAM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRONG CORRELATION; TESTING EFFORT; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DEFECTS;

EID: 77949485742     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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