Abstract:This paper documents a study of fault proneness in commercial, proprietary software and attempts to determine whether a relationship exists between class faults and the design context of a class, namely the coupling and cohesion of a class, and whether the class is a participant of common design patterns. The authors studied a commercial software system for a 24 month period and identified design pattern participants by inspecting the design documentation and source code; coupling and cohesion metrics were mea… Show more
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