Empirical studies of software defects rely on links between bug databases and program code repositories. This linkage is typically based on bug-fixes identified in developer-enter...
Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Pr...
Background. Software defect prediction has been one of the central topics of software engineering. Predicted defect counts have been used mainly to assess software quality and est...
Thomas Schulz, Lukasz Radlinski, Thomas Gorges, Wo...
Empirical software engineering focuses on the evaluation of software engineering technologies, such as processes and tools, by comparing related sets of data. It has contributed a ...
Davide Falessi, Philippe Kruchten, Giovanni Canton...
Software products released into the field typically have some number of residual defects that either were not detected or could not have been detected during testing. This may be...
Christian Murphy, Gail E. Kaiser, Ian Vo, Matt Chu
A software product line (SPL) is a family of related program variants in a well-defined domain, generated from a set of features. A fundamental difference from classical applicati...