Are popular classes more defect prone?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6013 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 59-73

  Bacchelli, Alberto ^a   D'Ambros, Marco ^a   Lanza, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUG TRACKING SYSTEM; CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DEFECT PREDICTION; DESIGN DECISIONS; E-MAIL ARCHIVES; EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; FUTURE PLANNING; MAILING LISTS; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEFECTS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 77951272242     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12029-9_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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