On the Relation between External Software Quality and Static Code Analysis

Reinhold Plösch; Harald Gruber; Anja Hentschel; Gustav Pomberger; Stefan Schiffer

doi:10.1109/SEW.2008.17

On the Relation between External Software Quality and Static Code Analysis

Reinhold Plösch, Harald Gruber, Anja Hentschel, Gustav Pomberger, Stefan Schiffer

Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering

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Abstract

Only a few studies exist that try to investigate whether there is a significant correlation between external software quality and the data provided by static code analysis tools. A clarification on this issue could pave the way for more precise prediction models on the probability of defects based on the violation of programming rules. We therefore initiated a study where the defect data of selected versions of the open source development environment Eclipse SDK is correlated with the data provided by the static code analysis tools PMD and FindBugs applied the source code of Eclipse. The results from this study are promising as especially some PMD rulesets show a good correlation with the defect data and could therefore serve as basis for measurement, control and prediction of software quality.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 32nd Annual IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-32), Porto Sani Resort, Kassandra, Greece, October 15-16, 2008
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	169-174
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-0-7695-3617-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SEW.2008.17
Publication status	Published - Oct 2008

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Name	Computer Society Press

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202017 Embedded systems
102 Computer Sciences
102015 Information systems
102022 Software development
202022 Information technology
502032 Quality management
502050 Business informatics

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Plösch, R., Gruber, H., Hentschel, A., Pomberger, G., & Schiffer, S. (2008). On the Relation between External Software Quality and Static Code Analysis. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-32), Porto Sani Resort, Kassandra, Greece, October 15-16, 2008 (pp. 169-174). Article 5328373 (Computer Society Press). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SEW.2008.17

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On the Relation between External Software Quality and Static Code Analysis. / Plösch, Reinhold; Gruber, Harald; Hentschel, Anja et al.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-32), Porto Sani Resort, Kassandra, Greece, October 15-16, 2008. IEEE, 2008. p. 169-174 5328373 (Computer Society Press).

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