Today’s information technology society increasingly relies on software at all levels. Nevertheless, software quality generally continues to fall short of expectations, and softw...
This paper empirically explores the correlations between a suite of structural stability metrics for object-oriented designs and post-release defect density. The investigated stab...
The software industry is more than ever facing the challenge of delivering WYGIWYW software (What You Get Is What You Want). A well-structured document specifying adequate, comple...
The pressures which act on a software system over its life from inception to retirement are many and varied. It is an important goal in considering software evolvability to unders...
Claims concerning the maintainability of object oriented software usually refer to encapsulation and inheritance mechanisms. However, if objects are perceived only from the code l...
Roland Mittermeir, Helfried Pirker, Dominik Rauner...