Class information for:
Level 1: SOFTWARE METRICS//SOFTWARE QUALITY//DEFECT PREDICTION

Basic class information
Class id #P Avg. number of
references		 Database coverage
of references
2087 2361 32.3 33%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Hierarchy of classes
The table includes all classes above and classes immediately below the current class.


Cluster id Level Cluster label #P
9 4 COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS//COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE//COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1247339
148 3       COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING//COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS//ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES 63683
539 2             COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING//INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY//IEEE SOFTWARE 14738
2087 1                   SOFTWARE METRICS//SOFTWARE QUALITY//DEFECT PREDICTION 2361

Terms with highest relevance score


rank Term termType Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 SOFTWARE METRICS authKW 1715122 9% 61% 217
2 SOFTWARE QUALITY authKW 553692 5% 35% 124
3 DEFECT PREDICTION authKW 538793 2% 83% 50
4 OBJECT ORIENTED METRICS authKW 462494 2% 87% 41
5 SOFTWARE INSPECTION authKW 451120 2% 81% 43
6 EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING journal 411858 5% 27% 118
7 SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT authKW 384823 2% 60% 50
8 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE authKW 341905 4% 29% 92
9 SOFTWARE DEFECT PREDICTION authKW 339521 1% 82% 32
10 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING journal 303792 11% 9% 259

Web of Science journal categories


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with term
in class
1 Computer Science, Software Engineering 275585 78% 1% 1851
2 Computer Science, Theory & Methods 16280 23% 0% 547
3 Computer Science, Information Systems 12456 19% 0% 453
4 Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture 3652 7% 0% 171
5 Engineering, Electrical & Electronic 2108 19% 0% 459
6 Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence 1614 7% 0% 174
7 Operations Research & Management Science 144 2% 0% 53
8 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS & CYBERNETICS 114 0% 0% 5
9 Information Science & Library Science 101 1% 0% 30
10 Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications 39 2% 0% 42

Address terms


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 EMPIR SOFTWARE ENGN 80928 1% 48% 13
2 ALARCOS GRP 67312 1% 21% 25
3 MAINTENANCE CONSTRUCT INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE 66503 0% 86% 6
4 SOFTWARE ANAL INTELLIGENCE 51726 0% 100% 4
5 PTIDEJ TEAM 45253 0% 50% 7
6 SAIL 39005 1% 23% 13
7 DGIGL 35194 0% 39% 7
8 RMOD TEAM 29384 0% 45% 5
9 EMPIR FDN COMP SCI 25863 0% 100% 2
10 EMPIR SOFTWARE PROC 25863 0% 100% 2

Journals


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 411858 5% 27% 118
2 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 303792 11% 9% 259
3 JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE 299232 12% 8% 289
4 INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY 269286 10% 9% 226
5 SOFTWARE QUALITY JOURNAL 234727 4% 20% 92
6 JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION-RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 145010 2% 23% 49
7 JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE-RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 109389 1% 26% 32
8 IEEE SOFTWARE 81711 4% 6% 103
9 IET SOFTWARE 52804 2% 11% 36
10 JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE-EVOLUTION AND PROCESS 42892 1% 11% 30

Author Key Words


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 SOFTWARE METRICS 1715122 9% 61% 217 Search SOFTWARE+METRICS Search SOFTWARE+METRICS
2 SOFTWARE QUALITY 553692 5% 35% 124 Search SOFTWARE+QUALITY Search SOFTWARE+QUALITY
3 DEFECT PREDICTION 538793 2% 83% 50 Search DEFECT+PREDICTION Search DEFECT+PREDICTION
4 OBJECT ORIENTED METRICS 462494 2% 87% 41 Search OBJECT+ORIENTED+METRICS Search OBJECT+ORIENTED+METRICS
5 SOFTWARE INSPECTION 451120 2% 81% 43 Search SOFTWARE+INSPECTION Search SOFTWARE+INSPECTION
6 SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT 384823 2% 60% 50 Search SOFTWARE+MEASUREMENT Search SOFTWARE+MEASUREMENT
7 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE 341905 4% 29% 92 Search SOFTWARE+MAINTENANCE Search SOFTWARE+MAINTENANCE
8 SOFTWARE DEFECT PREDICTION 339521 1% 82% 32 Search SOFTWARE+DEFECT+PREDICTION Search SOFTWARE+DEFECT+PREDICTION
9 SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY 288985 1% 72% 31 Search SOFTWARE+COMPLEXITY Search SOFTWARE+COMPLEXITY
10 SOFTWARE FAULT PREDICTION 272120 1% 96% 22 Search SOFTWARE+FAULT+PREDICTION Search SOFTWARE+FAULT+PREDICTION

Core articles
The table includes core articles in the class. The following variables is taken into account for the relevance score of an article in a cluster c:
(1) Number of references referring to publications in the class.
(2) Share of total number of active references referring to publications in the class.
(3) Age of the article. New articles get higher score than old articles.
(4) Citation rate, normalized to year.


Rank Reference # ref.
in cl.		 Shr. of ref. in
cl.		 Citations
1 RADJENOVIC, D , HERICKO, M , TORKAR, R , ZIVKOVIC, A , (2013) SOFTWARE FAULT PREDICTION METRICS: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW.INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY. VOL. 55. ISSUE 8. P. 1397 -1418 62 94% 46
2 BEECHAM, S , BOWES, D , GRAY, D , COUNSELL, S , HALL, T , (2012) A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW ON FAULT PREDICTION PERFORMANCE IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. VOL. 38. ISSUE 6. P. 1276 -1304 46 88% 104
3 JABANGWE, R , BORSTLER, J , SMITE, D , WOHLIN, C , (2015) EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE LINK BETWEEN OBJECT-ORIENTED MEASURES AND EXTERNAL QUALITY ATTRIBUTES: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW.EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. VOL. 20. ISSUE 3. P. 640 -693 51 94% 1
4 MALHOTRA, R , (2015) A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR SOFTWARE FAULT PREDICTION.APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING. VOL. 27. ISSUE . P. 504 -518 44 88% 7
5 MALHOTRA, R , CHUG, A , (2016) SOFTWARE MAINTAINABILITY: SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW AND CURRENT TRENDS.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING. VOL. 26. ISSUE 8. P. 1221 -1253 41 84% 0
6 CATAL, C , (2011) SOFTWARE FAULT PREDICTION: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND CURRENT TRENDS.EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS. VOL. 38. ISSUE 4. P. 4626 -4636 33 100% 42
7 ZHOU, YM , XU, BW , LEUNG, H , CHEN, L , (2014) AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF THE POTENTIALLY CONFOUNDING EFFECT OF CLASS SIZE IN FAULT PREDICTION.ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND METHODOLOGY. VOL. 23. ISSUE 1. P. - 43 74% 1
8 OZTURK, MM , ZENGIN, A , (2016) HOW REPEATED DATA POINTS AFFECT BUG PREDICTION PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY.APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING. VOL. 49. ISSUE . P. 1051 -1061 32 91% 0
9 AL DALLAL, J , (2013) OBJECT-ORIENTED CLASS MAINTAINABILITY PREDICTION USING INTERNAL QUALITY ATTRIBUTES.INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY. VOL. 55. ISSUE 11. P. 2028-2048 34 87% 5
10 ARAR, OF , AYAN, K , (2016) DERIVING THRESHOLDS OF SOFTWARE METRICS TO PREDICT FAULTS ON OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: REPLICATED CASE STUDIES.EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS. VOL. 61. ISSUE . P. 106 -121 33 83% 0

Classes with closest relation at Level 1


Rank Class id link
1 11152 SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION//EFFORT ESTIMATION//SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION
2 8845 PROGRAM COMPREHENSION//SOFTWARE REUSE//FEATURE LOCATION
3 18970 SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE//DESIGN PATTERNS//ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE
4 3715 SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT//AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT//GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
5 15574 PROGRAM SLICING//PROGRAM DEPENDENCE GRAPH//DYNAMIC SLICING
6 23745 CODE CLONE//SOFTWARE BIRTHMARK//PLAGIARISM DETECTION
7 14651 PROGRAMMING KNOWLEDGE//INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MAN-MACHINE STUDIES//NOVICE PROGRAMMERS
8 7984 SOFTWARE RELIABILITY//SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL//RELIABILITY GROWTH
9 4243 SOFTWARE TESTING//REGRESSION TESTING//SOFTWARE TESTING VERIFICATION & RELIABILITY
10 35618 GRASIM//BEQAA VALLEY OF LEBANON//COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE TESTING CAST

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