Software fault prediction aims to identify fault-prone software modules by using some
underlying properties of the software project before the actual testing process begins. It …

Software maintenance is an expensive activity that consumes a major portion of the cost of
the total project. Various activities carried out during maintenance include the addition of …

The relationships between coupling and external quality factors of object-oriented software
have been studied extensively for the past few years. For example, several studies have …

The paper presents a methodology for reliability risk assessment at the early stages of the
development lifecycle, namely, the architecture level. We describe a heuristic risk …

Risk assessment is an essential part in managing software development. Performing risk
assessment during the early development phases enhances resource allocation decisions …

Context Coupling relations reflect the dependencies between software entities and can be
used to assess the quality of a program. For this reason, a vast amount of them has been …

Several important aspects of software product quality can be evaluated using dynamic
metrics that effectively capture and reflect the software's true runtime behavior. While the …

Software metrics help us to make meaningful estimates for software products and guide us
in taking managerial and technical decisions. However, conventional static metrics have …

The effectiveness of current software development strategies, such as Model-Driven
Development (MDD), depends largely on the quality of their primary artefacts, ie software …

This paper proposes and implements a rigorous method for studying the dynamic behaviour
of AspectJ programs. As part of this methodology several new metrics specific to AspectJ …