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An analysis of SNA metrics on the Java Qualitas Corpus

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Roberto Tonelli,

Michele Marchesi, and

Alessandro MurgiaAuthors Info & Claims

ISEC '11: Proceedings of the 4th India Software Engineering Conference

February 2011

Pages 205 - 213

https://doi.org/10.1145/1953355.1953382

Published: 24 February 2011 Publication History

Abstract

We computed the software graphs of 96 systems of the Java Qualitas Corpus, parsing the source code and identifying the dependencies among classes.

We analyzed 12 software metrics on these 96 graphs, nine borrowed from Social Network Analysis (SNA), and three more traditional software metrics, such as Loc, Fan-in and Fan-out. We analyzed their correlations at system level, and studied the correlation statistics at data-set level.

Our results show that these correlations are independent from the specific software system and are general properties of Java software systems.

We show how the metrics can be partitioned in groups for almost the whole Java Qualitas Corpus, and that such grouping can provide insights on the topology of software networks.

For two systems, Eclipse and Netbeans, we computed also the number of bugs, identifying the bugs affecting each class, and finding that some SNA metrics are highly correlated with bugs, while others are strongly anticorrelated.

This suggests that practitioners and software engineers might take advantage of such metrics to keep control of software quality.

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February 2011

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DOI:10.1145/1953355

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Vranković AGalinac Grbac TCar Ž(2018)Software structure evolution and relation to subgraph defectivenessIET Software10.1049/iet-sen.2018.5060Online publication date: 11-Dec-2018
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Wu F(2014)Comparative Analysis of Software Network and CK Metrics: Implications for Pre- and Post-release FaultsJournal of Software10.4304/jsw.9.3.541-5529:3Online publication date: 1-Mar-2014
https://doi.org/10.4304/jsw.9.3.541-552
Destefanis GTonelli RTempero EConcas GMarchesi M(2012)Micro Pattern Fault-PronenessProceedings of the 2012 38th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications10.1109/SEAA.2012.63(302-306)Online publication date: 5-Sep-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SEAA.2012.63

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