Establishing credible thresholds is a central challenge for promoting source code metrics as
an effective instrument to control the internal quality of software systems. To address this …

Code smells are archetypes of design shortcomings in the code that can potentially cause
problems during maintenance. One known approach for detecting code smells is via …

Model-driven software development comes in different styles. While standard-based
approaches leverage existing language standards (eg UML), tooling, and even …

Context: Ownership metrics measure how the workload of software modules is shared
among their developers. They have been shown to be accurate indicators of software …

Software metrics are surrogates of many software quality factors such as fault proneness,
reusability, and maintenance effort. Software metrics are numbers collected from software …

The software metrics play the important role in the software industry. As the software industry
growing in size and complexity enhanced support is mandatory for computing and …

Context Contemporary development approaches consider that time-to-market is of utmost
importance and assume that software projects are constantly evolving, driven by the …

The availability of open source software projects has created an enormous opportunity for
software engineering research. However, this availability requires that researchers …

Scrum is a simple process to understand, but hard to adopt. Therefore, there is a need for
resources to assist on its adoption. In this paper, we present the process followed to build a …

Meaningful thresholds are essential for promoting source code metrics as an effective
instrument to control the internal quality of software systems. Despite the increasing number …