An exploratory study of the impact of antipatterns on class change- and fault-proneness

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 243-275

  Khomh, Foutse ^a   Penta, Massimiliano Di ^b   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^c   Antoniol, Giuliano ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antipatterns; Empirical software engineering; Mining software repositories

Indexed keywords

ANTI-PATTERNS; BUG REPORTS; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FAULT-PRONE; FAULT-PRONENESS; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM; POSTERIORI; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

TEACHING;

EID: 84857356474     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-011-9171-y     Document Type: Article

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