Measuring Quality Improvements After Stimulating Software Quality Awareness Among Developers

Software systems are getting larger and more complex. It takes therefore more time and money to maintain these systems. The maintenance effort is strongly related to the quality of the implementation during the development phase. Providing qualitative numbers to developers about their previous im- plementations could help increase the quality of...

Constructing a Test Code Quality Model and Empirically Assessing its Relation to Issue Handling Performance

Automated testing is a basic principle of agile development. Its benefits include early defect detection, defect cause localization and removal of fear to apply changes in the code. Therefore, maintaining high quality test code is essential. This study introduces a model that assesses test code quality by combining source code metrics that...