Retracted December 14, 2011: Relationship between Crosscutting Concerns and Defects
Pankaj Kumar, Kamlesh Dutta · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2011
Empirical studies indicate that crosscutting concerns negatively impact internal quality indicators (e.g., cause increased coupling). However, empirical evidence indicating that crosscutting negatively impacts external quality indicators is lacking. To address this, we present the results of an experiment to determine if concerns whose implementations are scattered are more likely to have defects. Our results provide preliminary evidence that scattering is strongly correlated with defects at statistically significant levels.