In the presence of an internal state, often it is required a sequence of function calls to test software. In fact, to cover a particular branch of the code, a sequence of previous...
Object-oriented analysis and design have been more concerned with system functionality, neglecting non-functional aspects; the result is code which is tangled and difficult to main...
Software developers often duplicate source code to replicate functionality. This practice can hinder the maintenance of a software project: bugs may arise when two identical code ...
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
With the advent of open source software repositories the data available for defect prediction in source files increased tremendously. Although traditional statistics turned out t...