When process data quality affects the number of bugs: Correlations in software engineering datasets

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 62-71

  Bachmann, Adrian ^a   Bernstein, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Case study; Correlation; Mining software repositories; Process quality; Product quality

Indexed keywords

BUG REPORTS; BUG TRACKING; BUG-FIXING; CLOSED SOURCE; CORRELATION MINING; DATA QUALITY; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; HIGH RATE; OPEN SOURCES; PROCESS DATA; PROCESS QUALITY; PRODUCT QUALITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS; VERSION CONTROL SYSTEM;

DATA REDUCTION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77953774300     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2010.5463286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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