This article is a spin-off piece from the paper "Do We Need Improved Code Quality Metrics?" by myself and Prof. Diomidis Spinellis.
Software metrics have always been on a roller-coaster ride. On one hand, researchers and practitioners have adopted metrics not only to reveal quality characteristics of their programs, but …
Poor design quality and huge technical debt are common issues perceived in real-life software projects. Carrying out a software design quality assessment effectively and adopting the recommendations from it could improve the design quality. A comprehensive design assessment requires us to know the requirements in detail and weight different design …
Machine Learning for Source Code Analysis (ML4SCA)