A study of cyclic dependencies on defect profile of software components

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3162-3182

  Oyetoyan, Tosin Daniel ^a   Cruzes, Daniela S ^a,b   Conradi, Reidar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Defect prone components; Defects; Dependency cycle

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC DEPENDENCIES; DEFECT-PRONE COMPONENTS; DEPENDENCY CYCLE; OBJECT ORIENTED METRICS; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; TESTING RESOURCES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; REUSABILITY;

DEFECTS;

EID: 84887017156     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.07.039     Document Type: Article

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