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                    Seminar Announcement

            School of Computer Science, CECS
             The Australian National University
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Date:  Thursday, 20 August 2009
Time:  4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]


Speaker: Normi Awang Abu Bakar, DCS

Title:   The Effects of Software Design Complexity on Defects
         in Open Source Systems
   
Abstract:
   This research is based on prior work of Card and Glass, who
   introduced a System Complexity Model as a combination of
   Structural and Data Complexity.  They applied their model to
   eight similar FORTRAN (RATFOR) systems.

   The present work both confirms and extends the Card and Glass
   model by applying it to the object-oriented environment.
   Several adjustments are made to accommodate important
   characteristics of object-oriented design and language, such
   as inheritance and encapsulation. Based on these adjustments,
   a new System Complexity Model is proposed, which is then
   applied to 52 open source systems to investigate its
   effectiveness in predicting post-delivery defects. The data
   are extracted from the source code of systems obtained from
   an open source repository, SourceForge.  Besides these data,
   Version Downloads and the Number of Developers are also
   considered as independent variables for predicting user
   reported defects.

Biography:
   Normi is a PhD student is the Department of Computer Science
   and is on the brink of thesis submission.


URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars09/dept20090820



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