Eleven open source software projects written in C/C++ were analyzed to determine if the number of committing developers impacts code quality. We use cyclomatic complexity, lines o...
Brandon Norick, Justin Krohn, Eben Howard, Ben Wel...
Code duplication, plausibly caused by copying source code and slightly modifying it, is often observed in large systems. Clone detection and documentation have been investigated b...
Magdalena Balazinska, Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenai...
A classic question in software development is “H ow much testing is enough?” Aside from dynamic coverage-based metrics, there are few measures that can be used to provide guid...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie A. Williams, Jason Osb...
Packages are the basic units of release and reuse in software development. The contents and boundaries of packages should therefore be chosen to minimize change propagation and ma...
Tracking the progress of a project is often done through imprecise manually gathered information, like progress reports, or through automatic metrics such as Lines Of Code (LOC). ...