A quantitative investigation of the acceptable risk levels of object-oriented metrics in open-source systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 216-225

  Shatnawi, Raed ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

CK metrics; Object oriented programming; Open source software; Product metrics; Threshold values

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE RISK LEVELS; DATA DISTRIBUTION; DESIGN COMPLEXITY; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; HIGH RISK LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; OBJECT ORIENTED METRICS; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; OPEN-SOURCE; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; RISK LEVELS; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; STATISTICAL MODELS; THRESHOLD EFFECT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION TREES; RISKS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77950629488     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2010.9     Document Type: Article

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