Linking Software Design Metrics to Component Change-Proneness
1. Lookup NU author(s)   2. Dr Claire Ingram   3. Dr Stephen
Riddle Author(s)Ingram C; Riddle S Publication type Report
Series TitleSchool of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Legacy DateJune 2011 Report Number1257 Full text is available
for this publication: One technique from value-based software
engineering involves prioritising the system and selectively
applying time-consuming techniques (such as traceability) in
order to maximise return on investment. This prioritisation
could be based on predicted change-proneness of code modules, if
a sufficiently accurate prediction can be achieved. Several
previous studies have examined links between software change-
proneness and software metrics such as size and complexity.
However, conclusions differ as to the strength of the
relationships. We present here a new case study project,
extracting a range of complexity values from the code modules
and testing for the existence of a significant lin