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Run it or count it

A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.

Two ways of asking whether software is any good: run it to find errors, or count something and predict from it. Collects the testing literature and the software-metrics literature together, so the disagreement between them is visible. The recurring complaint is that the measures count size, which is what the set's earliest member says is the wrong thing to count.

9 references

Software testing: a craftsman's approach
Paul C. Jorgensen and others (2021) · CRC Press
Introduction to software testing
Paul Ammann and others (2016) · Cambridge University Press
Do bugs foreshadow vulnerabilities? A study of the Chromium project
Felivel Camilo and others (2015) · 2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories · IEEE
An Overview of Software Defect Density: A Scoping Study
Syed Muhammad Ali Shah and others (2012) · 2012 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference · IEEE
The economics of software quality
Capers Jones and others (2011) · Addison-Wesley Professional
An investigation of the relationships between lines of code and defects
Hongyu Zhang (2009) · 2009 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance · IEEE
Measuring defect potentials and defect removal efficiency
Capers Jones (2008) · Journal of Defense Software Engineering
The art of software testing
Glenford J. Myers and others (2004) · Wiley
A Complexity Measure
Thomas J. McCabe (1976) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · IEEE Computer Society