Abstract
Thresholds are essential for promoting source code metrics as an effective instrument to control the internal quality of software applications. However, little is known about the relation between software quality as identified by metric thresholds and as perceived by real developers. In this paper, we report the first results of a study designed to validate a technique that extracts relative metric thresholds from benchmark data. We use this technique to extract thresholds from a benchmark of 79 Pharo/Smalltalk applications, which are validated with five experts and 25 developers. Our preliminary results indicate that good quality applications - as cited by experts - respect metric thresholds. In contrast, we observed that noncompliant applications are not largely viewed as requiring more effort to maintain than other applications
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2015 IEEE 31th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), September 29 - October 1, 2015 Bremen, Germany |
Editors | R. Koschke, J. Krinke, M. Robillard |
Place of Publication | Piscataway |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Pages | 546-550 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4673-7532-0 |
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Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Event | 31st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2015) - Bremen, Germany Duration: 29 Sept 2015 → 1 Oct 2015 Conference number: 31 http://www.icsme.uni-bremen.de/ |
Conference
Conference | 31st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2015) |
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Abbreviated title | ICSME 2015 |
Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Bremen |
Period | 29/09/15 → 1/10/15 |
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