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Evaluating Maintainability of Open Source Software: A Case Study

Hanandeh, Feras; Saifan, Ahmad A.; Akour, Mohammed; … - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 1-20

Maintainability is one of the most important quality attribute that affect the quality of software. There are four … factors that affect the maintainability of software which are: analyzability, changeability, stability, and testability. Open … source software (OSS) developed by collaborative work done by volunteers through around the world with different management …

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A New Data Mining-Based Framework to Test Case Prioritization Using Software Defect Prediction

Alsukhni, Emad; Saifan, Ahmad A.; Alawneh, Hanadi - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 21-41

Test cases do not have the same importance when used to detect faults in software; therefore, it is more efficient to … techniques: 1) the data mining regression classifier that depends on software metrics to predict defective modules, and 2) the k …

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Investigating the Effect of Sensitivity and Severity Analysis on Fault Proneness in Open Source Software

Mala, D. Jeya - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 42-66

Fault prone components in open source software leads to huge loss and inadvertent effects if not properly identified …

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Non-Trivial Software Clone Detection Using Program Dependency Graph

Saini, Hemraj; Gautam, Pratiksha - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 2, pp. 1-24

software system. This article presents an approach which shows the significant parts of source code. Further, by using … software clone, a similar textual structure, can be detected.The proposed approach is based on a tokenization concept. …

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A Novel Anti-Obfuscation Model for Detecting Malicious Code

Wang, Yuehan; Li, Tong; Cai, Yongquan; Ning, Zhenhu; … - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 2, pp. 25-43

In this article, the authors present a new malicious code detection model. The detection model improves typical n-gram feature extraction algorithms that are easy to be obfuscated. Specifically, the proposed model can dynamically determine obfuscation features and then adjust the selection of...

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Lock-Free Binary Search Tree Based on Leaf Search

Zhang, Yang; Yu, Xin; Zhang, Dongwen; Wei, Mengmeng; … - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 2, pp. 44-58

Binary search tree is one of the most important data structures in program design. This article proposes a novel lock-free algorithm, which can implement the lock-free operations, such as search, insert and delete, using compare and swap (CAS). Unlike the previous studies of handling the inside...

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Heuristic Guided Selective Path Exploration for Loop Structure in Coverage Testing

Zhang, Xu-zhou; Gong, Yun-zhan; Wang, Ya-Wen - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 2, pp. 59-75

Static program analysis is a strong technique for analyzing program behavior, but suffers from scalability problem, such as path explosion which is caused by the presence of loops and function calls. This article applies the selective execution mechanism and heuristic strategy on exploring paths...

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A Novel UML Based Approach for Early Detection of Change Prone Classes

Bura, Deepa; Choudhary, Amit; Singh, Rakesh Kumar - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-23

This article describes how predicting change-prone classes is essential for effective development of software …. Evaluating changes from one release of software to the next can enhance software quality. This article proposes an efficient … novel-based approach for predicting changes early in the object-oriented software. Earlier researchers have calculated …

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A Resourceful Approach in Security Testing to Protect Electronic Payment System Against Unforeseen Attack

Behera, Rajat Kumar; Sahoo, Abhaya Kumar; Jena, Ajay - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 24-48

systems (EPS), security tests play a significant role in the software development life cycle to check whether the system is …

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Research of Software Reliability Test Based on Test Model

Hong-Hui, LI; Ai-Hua, Zhao; Jun-Wen, Zhang - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 49-64

This article describes how in recent years, models-based software reliability test methods have been a hot topic. In …

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