Is Software Quality Visible in the Code?

  • Authors:
  • Søren Lauesen;Houman Younessi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Finding and fixing software code defects is crucial to product quality. It also, however, often proves difficult and time-consuming, especially late in the development cycle. While some believe that code analysis provides a simple way to detect quality defects, Lauesen and Younessi argue otherwise. To prove their point, they analyzed datafromerror reports, and their results show that code analysis detects only a small percentage of meaningful defects.