Software Evolution and Quality Data from Controlled, Multiple, Industrial Case Studies

This data was obtained from a controlled, multiple case study involving six professional developers and four real-life, industrial systems. The study was designed to control for the moderator factors: programmer skill, maintenance task and learning effect. The primary data set contains multiple sets of defects, in the form of reports (excel files) extracted from six issue tracking systems. The secondary data consists of a series of attributes extracted from the software systems (i.e., code smells) and their evolution (i.e., code churn), and a log specifying the dates on which developers worked on each of the systems/tasks, in the form of excel files. Details on the controlled, multiple case study can be found in the doctoral dissertation by Yamashita titled: "Assessing the Capability of Code Smells to Support Software Maintainability Assessments: Empirical Inquiry and Methodological Approach" (online) Available at: https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/34525