Quality Factors in Object-Oriented Designs: an Industrial Case Study

You will be making your first post but not necessarily responding to others posts. Instead we will discuss your posts in class and then you will repost to incorporate the discussion we had in class. Post your comments and questions to the D6 Discussion.

This Discussion Assignment asks you to read and comment on the following paper: L. Briand, J. Wust, S. Ikonomovski, H. Lounis, Investigating quality factors in object-oriented designs: an industrial case study. Proc. Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1999, pp. 345-354. This paper describes a case study to evaluate the relationship between design constructs and fault-proneness.

Part A (6 points)

1. Read the industrial case study paper. Consider the case study design and how it was carried out.
   • Are appropriate subjects used?
   • What are the study's risks to validity?
   • Do you agree with the results?
   • How could the case study be better designed?
   • How does the design of this study differ from that of the controlled experiment from the prior discussion?
   • Could similar results be obtained via a survey or an experiment?
   • What makes this paper difficult (or easy) to read?
2. Post 3-5 relevant comments and questions concerning the paper.

Part B (4 points)

1. Respond to the in-class and on-line discussion of the paper. Have you changed your opinion of the paper after the in-class discussion and further review of the paper and comments?

Grading Policy

You must actively participate in the discussion to get a grade.