Effects of organizational changes on product metrics and defects

Seiji Sato; Hironori Washizaki; Yoshiaki Fukazawa; Sakae Inoue; Hiroyuki Ono; Yoshiiku Hanai; Mikihiko Yamamoto

doi:10.1109/APSEC.2013.28

Effects of organizational changes on product metrics and defects

Seiji Sato, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Sakae Inoue, Hiroyuki Ono, Yoshiiku Hanai, Mikihiko Yamamoto

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Abstract

The development organization often changes during software development. Derivative developments, forks, and change of developers due to acquisition or open-sourcing are some conceivable situations. However, the impact of this change on software quality has yet to be elucidated. Herein we introduce the concept of origins to study the effects of organizational changes on software quality. A file's origin is defined as its creation and modification history. Using the concept of origins, we analyze two open source projects, OpenOffice and VirtualBox, which were each developed by a total of three organizations. We conduct statistical analysis to investigate the relationship between the origins, product metrics, the number of modifications, and defects. Results show that files that are created or modified by multiple organizations or by later organizations tend to be faultier due to the increase in complexity and modification frequency.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	132-139
Number of pages	8
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	9781479921430, 9780769549224
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/APSEC.2013.28
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2013 - Bangkok, Thailand Duration: 2013 Dec 2 → 2013 Dec 5

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Other	20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2013
Country/Territory	Thailand
City	Bangkok
Period	13/12/2 → 13/12/5

Keywords

Defects
Organizational change
Product metrics

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Software

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Sato, S, Washizaki, H , Fukazawa, Y, Inoue, S, Ono, H, Hanai, Y & Yamamoto, M 2013, Effects of organizational changes on product metrics and defects. in Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC. vol. 1, 6805399, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 132-139, 20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2013, Bangkok, Thailand, 13/12/2. https://doi.org/10.1109/APSEC.2013.28

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