TY - GEN

T1 - An analysis of the 'inconclusive' change report category in OSS assisted by a program slicing metric

AU - Counsell, S.

AU - Hall, T.

AU - Nasseri, E.

AU - Bowes, D.

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - In this paper, we investigate the Barcode open-source system (OSS) using one of Weiser's original slice-based metrics (Tightness) as a basis. In previous work, low numerical values of this slice-based metric were found to indicate fault-free (as opposed to fault-prone) functions. In the same work, we deliberately excluded from our analysis a category comprising 221 of the 775 observations representing `inconclusive' log reports extracted from the OSS change logs. These represented OSS change log descriptions where it was not entirely clear whether a fault had occurred or not in a function and, for that reason, could not reasonably be incorporated into our analysis. In this paper we present a methodology through which we can draw conclusions about that category of report.

AB - In this paper, we investigate the Barcode open-source system (OSS) using one of Weiser's original slice-based metrics (Tightness) as a basis. In previous work, low numerical values of this slice-based metric were found to indicate fault-free (as opposed to fault-prone) functions. In the same work, we deliberately excluded from our analysis a category comprising 221 of the 775 observations representing `inconclusive' log reports extracted from the OSS change logs. These represented OSS change log descriptions where it was not entirely clear whether a fault had occurred or not in a function and, for that reason, could not reasonably be incorporated into our analysis. In this paper we present a methodology through which we can draw conclusions about that category of report.

U2 - 10.1109/SEAA.2010.17

DO - 10.1109/SEAA.2010.17

M3 - Conference contribution/Paper

SN - 9780769541709

SP - 283

EP - 286

BT - 2010 36th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

PB - IEEE

ER -