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Record W2106571622 · doi:10.1109/wcre.2009.22

SQUAD: Software Quality Understanding through the Analysis of Design

2009· article· en· W2106571622 on OpenAlexaff
Foutse Khomh

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Engineering Research
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSoftware qualityComputer scienceQuality (philosophy)Code smellSoftware engineeringSoftware quality controlObject-oriented designSoftwareSoftware design patternSoftware designSoftware quality analystSoftware developmentProgramming language

Abstract

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Object-oriented software quality models usually use metrics of classes and of relationships among classes to assess the quality of systems. However, software quality does not depend on classes solely: it also depends on the organization of classes, i.e., their design. Our thesis is that it is possible to understand how the design of systems affects their quality and to build quality models that take into account various design styles, in particular design patterns, antipatterns, and code smells. To demonstrate our thesis, we first analyze how playing roles in design patterns, antipatterns, and code smells impacts quality; specifically change-proneness, fault-proneness, and maintenance costs. Second, we build quality models and apply and validate them on open-source and industrial object-oriented systems to show that they allow a more precise evaluation of the quality than traditional models,like Bansiya et al.'s QMOOD.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.023

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0050.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.007
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.158
GPT teacher head0.359
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2009
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