Background Software fault prediction is the process of developing models that can be used
by the software practitioners in the early phases of software development life cycle for …

Several prediction approaches are contained in the arena of software engineering such as
prediction of effort, security, quality, fault, cost, and re-usability. All these prediction …

Several code smell detection tools have been developed providing different results,
because smells can be subjectively interpreted, and hence detected, in different ways. In this …

Empirical validation of software metrics used to predict software quality attributes is
important to ensure their practical relevance in software organizations. The aim of this work …

The importance of software measurement is increasing, leading to the development of new
measurement techniques. Many metrics have been proposed related to the various object …

Context Class maintainability is the likelihood that a class can be easily modified. Before
releasing an object-oriented software system, it is impossible to know with certainty when …

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 …

Microservice Architecture (MSA) is a rising trend in software architecture design.
Applications based on MSA are distributed applications whose components are …

Creating software with high quality has become difficult these days with the fact that size and
complexity of the developed software is high. Predicting the quality of software in early …

There are available metrics for predicting fault prone classes, which may help software
organizations for planning and performing testing activities. This may be possible due to …