How Do Defects Hurt Qualities? An Empirical Study on Characterizing a Software Maintainability Ontology in Open Source Software

2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS) Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI:10.1109/QRS.2018.00036

Celia Chen, Shih-Ting Lin, Michael Shoga, Qing Wang, B. Boehm

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Beyond the functional requirements of a system, software maintainability is essential for project success. While there exists a large knowledge base of software maintainability, this knowledge is rarely used in open source software due to the large number of developers and inefficiency in identifying quality issues. To effectively utilize the current knowledge base in practice requires a deeper understanding of how problems associated with the different qualities arise and change over time. In this paper, we sample over 6000 real bugs found from several Mozilla products to examine how maintainability is expressed with subgroups of repairability and modifiability. Furthermore, we manually study how these qualities evolve as the products mature, what the root causes of the bugs are for each quality and the impact and dependency of each quality. Our results inform which areas should be focused on to ensure maintainability at different stages of the development and maintenance process.

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缺陷是如何伤害品质的?开源软件可维护性本体表征的实证研究

除了系统的功能需求之外，软件的可维护性对于项目的成功也是必不可少的。虽然存在大量关于软件可维护性的知识库，但由于开发人员数量众多，并且在识别质量问题方面效率低下，这些知识很少在开源软件中使用。为了在实践中有效地利用当前的知识库，需要更深入地了解与不同质量相关的问题如何随着时间的推移而产生和变化。在本文中，我们从几个Mozilla产品中发现了超过6000个真实的bug，以检查可维护性是如何用可修复性和可修改性的子组来表达的。此外，我们手动研究这些质量是如何随着产品的成熟而演变的，每个质量的bug的根本原因是什么，以及每个质量的影响和依赖性。我们的结果告诉我们应该关注哪些领域以确保在开发和维护过程的不同阶段的可维护性。

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