Coupling of what?

Wouldn't it be amazing if the entities in a software system were coupled differently but similarly? They're calling each other so they're coupled. They're changed together do they're coupled. They have similar names, so they're coupled. One is the structural coupling, the second is the logical coupling, the third is the semantic coupling.

Turns out that structural coupling is affecting a lot of pairs of classes. Logical affects way less. But the logically coupled classes are also likely to be structurally coupled. This makes a case for building prediction models.

What are your structurally coupled classes? What is the chance that they will need to be changed over and over again?

On the traceability of bugs

The traceability of bugs means being able to find which bugs were opened and closed, and described by developers in the development logs.

Open source projects are particularly bad at that. A sample of over 300 projects shows that the bug coverage ratio (how many bugs are found in both bug tracker and development logs) reaches 30% in average.

Using both sets of bug IDs (from bug tracker and development logs) would increase the number of bugs available to study and model a development and maintenance process. How many studies could be updated in their conclusion using this approach?

share. No, don't share

I am fascinated by how our profession, the academic profession, has become less and less open in the last few years. Conferences are getting more and more papers, reviewers are choking with deadlines to review more and more papers, universities want staff to publish more and more papers.

It is not papers. It is the h-index. A measure to beat your fellow academics with when they think that they are better than you. A measure to impress your colleagues. A treasure to keep for the rest of your career. A machine to feed for the rest of your career.

Share or not share? If you share your ideas, someone will steal them from you. If you don't, you'll be publishing more, and your h-index will increase