Faster Defect Resolution with Higher Technical Quality of Software
Bart Luijten, Joost Visser · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · 2010
Abstract—We performed an empirical study of the relation between technical quality of software products and the defect resolution performance of their maintainers. In particular, we tested the hypothesis that ratings for source code maintain-ability, as employed by the SIG quality model, are correlated with ratings for defect resolution speed. This study revealed that all but one of the metrics of the SIG quality model show a significant positive correlation. Keywords-Software defects, Defect resolution, Maintainabil-ity, Source code metrics, Rank correlation, Issue tracker mining