期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science Issues
印刷版ISSN：1694-0784
电子版ISSN：1694-0814
出版年度：2015
卷号：12
期号：5
出版社：IJCSI Press
摘要：Software engineering and information systems practices seek ultimately to create the flawless product. One of the tools used to improve the quality of software development is the use of metrics. In this paper, metrics retrieved from open source software were analyzed for quality attributes. Defect density is considered a strong indication of the quality of software product. Few studies have taken into consideration the density of defects while looking into quality of software and proneness to defects. Analysis of this study has shown that defect density is relevant to different developers and different product sizes. Thus, open source project has shown to have low defect density and the larger the product the lower the defect density is. In addition, this study has shown that there are different metrics that correlate with each other indicating that some of these metrics have conceptual and practical relevance to each other. Another relationship was tested between the number of bugs and the metrics. Results indicated that most attributes had positive correlation with the number of bugs with exception to coupling between cohesion among methods of class.
关键词：Software Quality; Software Metrics; Open Source; Defect Density
