TY - GEN
T1 - A study on defect density of open source software
AU - Rahmani, Cobra
AU - Khazanchi, Deepak
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Open source software (OSS) development is considered an effective approach to ensuring acceptable levels of software quality. One facet of quality improvement involves the detection of potential relationship between defect density and other open source software metrics. This paper presents an empirical study of the relationship between defect density and download number, software size and developer number as three popular repository metrics. This relationship is explored by examining forty-four randomly selected open source software projects retrieved from SourceForge.net. By applying simple and multiple linear regression analysis, the results reveal a statistically significant relationship between defect density and number of developers and software size jointly. However, despite theoretical expectations, no significant relationship was found between defect density and number of downloads in OSS projects.
AB - Open source software (OSS) development is considered an effective approach to ensuring acceptable levels of software quality. One facet of quality improvement involves the detection of potential relationship between defect density and other open source software metrics. This paper presents an empirical study of the relationship between defect density and download number, software size and developer number as three popular repository metrics. This relationship is explored by examining forty-four randomly selected open source software projects retrieved from SourceForge.net. By applying simple and multiple linear regression analysis, the results reveal a statistically significant relationship between defect density and number of developers and software size jointly. However, despite theoretical expectations, no significant relationship was found between defect density and number of downloads in OSS projects.
KW - Bug repository
KW - Defect density
KW - Linear regression
KW - Open source software
KW - Software repository metric
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U2 - 10.1109/ICIS.2010.11
DO - 10.1109/ICIS.2010.11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649274795
SN - 9780769541471
T3 - Proceedings - 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2010
SP - 679
EP - 683
BT - Proceedings - 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2010
T2 - 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2010
Y2 - 18 August 2010 through 20 August 2010
ER -