Background: Software vulnerabilities are weaknesses in source code that might be exploited
to cause harm or loss. Previous work has proposed a number of automated machine …

Software security failures are common and the problem is growing. A vulnerability is a
weakness in the software that, when exploited, causes a security failure. It is difficult to detect …

This paper describes the results of an investigation into a set of metrics for object-oriented
design, called the MOOD metrics. The merits of each of the six MOOD metrics is discussed …

Code smells are poor implementation choices applied by developers during software
evolution that often lead to critical flaws or failure. Much in the same way, community smells …

Most people we know don't read a book's Preface. So, we'll keep it brief. Why read this
book? Why did we write it? The answer to both these questions is straightforward. We, the …

Code quality metrics are widely used to identify design flaws (eg, code smells) as well as to
act as fitness functions for refactoring recommenders. Both these applications imply a strong …

Code smells are symptoms of poor implementation choices applied during software
evolution. While previous research has devoted effort in the definition of automated solutions …

Code smells, ie, symptoms of poor design and implementation choices applied by
programmers during the development of a software project [2], represent an important factor …

One truism of deep learning is that the automatic feature engineering (seen in the first layers
of those networks) excuses data scientists from performing tedious manual feature …

We describe and evaluate some recently innovated coupling metrics for object-oriented
(OO) design. The Coupling Between Objects (CBO) metric of Chidamber and Kemerer …