NDLI: High-impact defects: a study of breakage and surprise defects

Please wait, while we are loading the content...

Building advanced mechatronic systems

Don't touch my code!: examining the effects of ownership on software quality

CSSL: a logic for specifying conditional scenarios

The onion patch: migration in open source ecosystems

Proving programs robust

Partial replay of long-running applications

Proactive detection of collaboration conflicts

Testing software in age of data privacy: a balancing act

Taming uncertainty in self-adaptive software

Leveraging existing instrumentation to automatically infer invariant-constrained models

High-impact defects: a study of breakage and surprise defects

Inferring data polymorphism in systems code

On the congruence of modularity and code coupling

Mining development repositories to study the impact of collaboration on software systems

Experimental specification mining for enterprise applications

Automatic test suite evolution

QoS verification and model tuning @ runtime

EvoSuite: automatic test suite generation for object-oriented software

Crystal: precise and unobtrusive conflict warnings

Using social media to study the diversity of example usage among professional developers

Stateful breakpoints: a practical approach to defining parameterized runtime monitors

Workshop on assurances for self-adaptive systems (ASAS 2011)

Software architecture: reflections on an evolving discipline

ReLink: recovering links between bugs and changes

Using an SMT solver for interactive requirements prioritization

Does adding manpower also affect quality?: an empirical, longitudinal analysis

Checking conformance of a producer and a consumer

Mitigating the confounding effects of program dependences for effective fault localization

ADDiff: semantic differencing for activity diagrams

Strong higher order mutation-based test data generation

Version-consistent dynamic reconfiguration of component-based distributed systems

Path exploration based on symbolic output

Micro interaction metrics for defect prediction

Boosting the performance of flow-sensitive points-to analysis using value flow

Fuzzy set and cache-based approach for bug triaging

Reputation-based self-management of software process artifact quality in consortium research projects

Search based hierarchy generation for reverse engineered state machines

Automatic structural testing with abstraction refinement and coarsening

A software lifecycle process for context-aware adaptive systems

SCORE: a scalable concolic testing tool for reliable embedded software

Synoptic: studying logged behavior with inferred models

Social sensing: when users become monitors

Finding bugs by isolating unit tests

IWPSE-EVOL 2011: 12th international workshop on principles on software evolution and 7th ERCIM workshop on software evolution

ELI-ALPS: the ultrafast challenges in Hungary

How do fixes become bugs?

Modeling the HTML DOM and browser API in static analysis of JavaScript web applications

Effective communication of software development knowledge through community portals

Managing performance vs. accuracy trade-offs with loop perforation

Fault localization for data-centric programs

Semistructured merge: rethinking merge in revision control systems

Improved multithreaded unit testing

On software component co-installability

Synthesizing data structure manipulations from storyboards

BugCache for inspections: hit or miss?

An architecture-centric approach for goal-driven requirements elicitation

Understanding failures through facts

SMutant: a tool for type-sensitive mutation testing in a dynamic language

Cross-layer modeler: a tool for flexible multilevel modeling with consistency checking

Cross-library API recommendation using web search engines

Inferring test results for dynamic software product lines

PASTE'11: Proceedings of the 10th ACM sigplan-sigsoft workshop on program analysis for software tools and engineering

jStar-eclipse: an IDE for automated verification of Java programs

Tool support for UML-based specification and verification of role-based access control properties

Exploiting software architecture to support requirements satisfaction testing

New ideas track: testing mapreduce-style programs

The 4th international workshop on social software engineering (SSE'11)

Static deep error checking in large system applications using parfait

SafeSlice: a model slicing and design safety inspection tool for SysML

EAGLE: engineering software in the ubiquitous globe by leveraging uncErtainty

Join point interfaces for modular reasoning in aspect-oriented programs

8th international workshop on software quality (WoSQ)

Querypoint: moving backwards on wrong values in the buggy execution

Design and validation of feature-based process model tailoring: a sample implementation of PDE

Probabilistic dataflow analysis using path profiles on structure graphs

Sydit: creating and applying a program transformation from an example

PSPWizard: machine-assisted definition of temporal logical properties with specification patterns

High-impact defects: a study of breakage and surprise defects

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Adams, Bram Shihab, Emad Kamei, Yasutaka Mockus, Audris Hassan, Ahmed E.
Abstract	The relationship between various software-related phenomena (e.g., code complexity) and post-release software defects has been thoroughly examined. However, to date these predictions have a limited adoption in practice. The most commonly cited reason is that the prediction identifies too much code to review without distinguishing the impact of these defects. Our aim is to address this drawback by focusing on high-impact defects for customers and practitioners. Customers are highly impacted by defects that break pre-existing functionality (breakage defects), whereas practitioners are caught off-guard by defects in files that had relatively few pre-release changes (surprise defects). The large commercial software system that we study already had an established concept of breakages as the highest-impact defects, however, the concept of surprises is novel and not as well established. We find that surprise defects are related to incomplete requirements and that the common assumption that a fix is caused by a previous change does not hold in this project. We then fit prediction models that are effective at identifying files containing breakages and surprises. The number of pre-release defects and file size are good indicators of breakages, whereas the number of co-changed files and the amount of time between the latest pre-release change and the release date are good indicators of surprises. Although our prediction models are effective at identifying files that have breakages and surprises, we learn that the prediction should also identify the nature or type of defects, with each type being specific enough to be easily identified and repaired.
Starting Page	300
Ending Page	310
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450304436
DOI	10.1145/2025113.2025155
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2011-09-05
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Defect prediction Process metrics High-impact
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Central Library (ISO-9001:2015 Certified)
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, West Bengal, India | PIN - 721302

See location in the Map
03222 282435
Mail: support@ndl.gov.in

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in