In the field of software engineering, during the development and maintenance of software,
the information on the classes which are more prone to be changed is very useful …

Object-oriented (OO) code has many dependencies among the classes and different types
of changes that often have an impact during the maintenance of the software. In this paper …

Software evolution is an ongoing process carried out with the aim of extending base
applications either for adding new functionalities or for adapting software to changing …

Source code changes can have ripple-effects that result in unchanged source code
elements producing different results than they would have produced before the changes …

Changeability is an important aspect of software maintenance and helps in better planning
of development and testing resources. Early detection of change-prone entities is beneficial …

Previous research shows that class size can influence the associations between object-
oriented (OO) metrics and fault-proneness and therefore proposes that it should be …

With the demand of increasing functionality and arrival of defects, software goes through a
lot of changes therefore its quite challenging task to maintain the quality of the software. In …

Predicting change prone class in software is a difficult software engineering process.
Selection of wrong effort estimation can delay project completion and can incur unnecessary …

It is quite challenging to track the after‐effects of changes with increased dependencies
among classes while making a change in software applications. Software change impact …