A comparison of measurement and defect characteristics of new and legacy software systems

Early measurement and improvement of software reliability

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes

Identifying high maintenance legacy software

Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice

An empirical comparison and characterization of high defect and high complexity modules

Journal of Systems and Software

Comparing High-Change Modules and Modules with the Highest Measurement Values in Two Large-Scale Open-Source Products

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Identifying and characterizing change-prone classes in two large-scale open-source products

Journal of Systems and Software

Theory of relative defect proneness

Empirical Software Engineering

Studying volatility predictors in open source software

Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement