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

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?
   • 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. Read and respond to the online postings. Have you changed your opinion of the paper after discussion and further review of the paper and comments? Explain in a response to your own post and the other posts. There is no need to prepare a group post as a whole.

Grading Policy

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