Studying the impact of social interactions on software quality

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 375-431

  Bettenburg, Nicolas ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human factors; Metrics measurement; Software evolution; Software quality assurance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES; DEFECT PREDICTION MODELS; DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL RELATION; METRICS/MEASUREMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

SOFTWARE QUALITY;

EID: 84880701721     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-012-9205-0     Document Type: Article

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