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Descripción
Software defects are generally used to indicate software quality. However, due to the nature of software, we are often only able to know about the defects found and reported; either following the testing process or after being deployed. In software research studies, it is assumed that a higher amount of defect reports represents a higher amount of defects in the software system. In this paper, we argue that widely deployed programs have more reported defects, regardless of their actual number of defects. To address this question, we perform a case study on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, a well-known free / open source software collection. We compare the defects reported for all the software packages in Debian with their popularity. We find that the number of reported defects for a Debian package is limited by its popularity. This finding has implications on defect prediction studies, showing that they need to consider the impact of popularity on perceived quality, otherwise they might be risking bias.
Internacional	Si
Nombre congreso	18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Tipo de participación	960
Lugar del congreso
Revisores	Si
ISBN o ISSN	978-1-4577-1948-6
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso	17/10/2011
Fecha fin congreso	20/10/2011
Desde la página	219
Hasta la página	228
Título de las actas	18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE 2011

Esta actividad pertenece a memorias de investigación

• Autor: Israel Herraiz Tabernero (UPM)

• Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Matemática e Informática Aplicadas a la Ingeniería civil