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Background: Defects are related to failures and they do not have much power for indicating a higher quality or a better system above the baseline that the end-users expect. Nevertheless, defect counts are commonly used as measures to capture the quality of a system. Further, the statistical association between internal design metrics and quality in terms of defects has been shown in previous work. Aims: Our goal is to conduct an initial data analysis for our longer-term goal of investigating whether there exist a similar relationship between the internal design characteristics of a system and quality perception of end-users. Method: We carry out an exploratory case study in robotic soccer domain. We propose a quality measure derived from the performances in the robotic soccer competitions. Then, we compare the design characteristics and quality levels of two cases. In particular, we compare the two different implementations of a system in terms of their design metrics and their overall quality as measured by game scores. Results: There are statistically significant differences between the two implementations in six out of seven design metrics. The implementation that has a much larger code base shows significantly better design characteristics in terms of complexity. We see significant differences in the quality levels as well. Conclusions: We observe that the implementation that has achieved a better performance in the tournament also has better design characteristics for almost all attributes. However, our analysis does not include enough data points to investigate any association between internal design metrics and the proposed quality metric. Another restriction is that the proposed metric is domain specific. In future work, we plan to extend our analysis using additional implementations of the same system to test the consistency of the results. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1145/1868328.1868345 | Promise |
Keywords | DocType | Citations |
significant difference,design metrics,proposed quality metric,internal design metrics,better software,better design characteristic,higher quality,quality level,overall quality,quality measure,quality perception,data analysis,statistical significance,software quality | Conference | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.36 | 19 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Burak Turhan | 1 | 1068 | 50.58 |
| Çetin Meriçli | 2 | 56 | 8.55 |
| Tekin Meriçli | 3 | 45 | 6.06 |