Empirical comparison of three metrics suites for fault prediction in packages of object-oriented systems: A case study of Eclipse

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 852-859

  Elish, Mahmoud O ^a   Al Yafei, Ali H ^b   Al Mulhem, Muhammed ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Arabian Advanced Systems   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Fault prediction; Object oriented packages; Object oriented systems; Prediction models; Software metrics; Software quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FAULT PREDICTION; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM; PREDICTION MODELS; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960834724     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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