An Empirical Evaluation of Distribution-based Thresholds for Internal Software Measures
Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca · 2016
Background Setting thresholds is important for the practical use of internal software measures, so software modules can be classified as having either acceptable or unacceptable quality, and software practitioners can take appropriate quality improvement actions. Quite a few methods have been proposed for setting thresholds and several of them are based on the distribution of an internal measure's values (and, possibly, other internal measures), without any explicit relationship with any external software quality of interest.