Paper Info
Title
Software defect density variants: A proposal
Abstract
Defect density (DD) is an important measure of software quality, but its usual definition (number of defects found divided by size in lines of code (loc)) is high level and may lead to different interpretations. The objective is to define concrete variants of Defect Density (standard DD, differential DD), analyze their trend over time on a number of projects, and understand which one is more suitable as an indicator of the quality of software projects. In the three projects analyzed the two variants of defect density have distinctly different trends over time; differential DD has a large variability, while standard DD has a steadily increasing trend. The conclusion is that both standard and differential DD are useful variants of DD, the standard DD providing a global quality view of a project (i.e. considering all the history) and the differential DD providing a local quality view (i.e. specific to one version). However, further studies are needed to investigate the usage of these variants.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/WETSoM.2013.6619337
Emerging Trends in Software Metrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
project management,software quality,differential dd,global project quality view,software defect density variant,software project quality measure,standard dd,defect density,market research,software measurement
Systems engineering,Software engineering,Computer science,Software bug,Software,Software quality,Reliability engineering,Source lines of code,Project management
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2327-0950
1
0.36
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Syed Muhammad Ali Shah1111.39
Morisio, Maurizio21342119.37
Marco Torchiano3116281.04