Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between some aspect‐oriented metrics and aspect fault proneness, content and fixing effort. Design/methodology/approach – An exploratory case study was conducted using an open source aspect‐oriented software...

Quality management in Open Source Software (OSS) has become a heated topic since the open source development model emerged. Much work has been done on exploring the distinct quality attributes in OSS, but very few studies covered quality estimation. In this paper, a general procedure is proposed...

Grundlagen und Bezugsrahmen des Entwurfs von Softwarearchitekturen -- Bewertung von Softwarearchitekturen -- Pattern im Kontext des Entwurfs und der Bewertung von Softwarearchitekturen -- Entwicklung eines pattern-basierten Wissensmodells -- Schlussbetrachtung.

Empirical studies on software prediction models do not converge with respect to the question "which prediction model is best?" The reason for this lack of convergence is poorly understood. In this simulation study, we have examined a frequently used research procedure comprising three main...