Are Slice-Based Cohesion Metrics Actually Useful in Effort-Aware Post-Release Fault-Proneness Prediction? An Empirical Study

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  2015

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  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

• Publication date

  2015-04-01

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  Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1109/TSE.2014.2370048
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