Evaluating regression test suites based on their fault exposure capability

Standards for quality software are increasingly important, especially for critical systems. Development standards and practices must be subjected to quantitative analyses; it is no longer adequate to encourage practices because they "make sense" or "...

Many new software development practices, tools, and techniques have been introduced in recent years. Few, however, have been empirically evaluated. The objectives of this study were to measure technology use in a production environment, develop a ...

Our current work involves developing methods of measuring changes to evolving software systems. We study a system's change characteristics over a large number of builds using the distinct sources of variation in the software metrics used to measure the ...