Evaluating the correlation between software defect and design coupling metrics

Author

Abuasad, Arwa ; Alsmadi, Izzat M.

Author_Institution

CIS Dept., Yarmouk Univ., Irbid, Jordan

fYear

2012

fDate

14-16 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Evaluating the software quality and discovering problems of a quality as early as possible in the project is a major goal in software project management planning. Studying the correlation between software products´ attributes and its high-level quality attributes has been the subject of several research papers. In this paper, several design coupling metrics are built in a software tool. A case study of several projects is assembled to evaluate the value and validity of the developed coupling metrics. The analysis is also conducted to evaluate the correlation between design and code coupling metrics. Results showed that a significant subset of those metrics could be very useful indicators for the overall software quality.

Keywords

project management; software architecture; software management; software metrics; software quality; software tools; code coupling metrics; design coupling metrics; software defect; software product attributes; software project management planning; software quality evaluation; software tool; Complexity theory; Correlation; Couplings; Predictive models; Software; Software metrics; Design metrics; coupling and complexity metrics; data mining; object oriented designs; software faults; software mining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Amman

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1549-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CITS.2012.6220374

Filename

6220374