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for any other purpose, such as enhancement, refactoring, and so on. In other words, this
report can be considered as the combination of bug count report and LOC changes report
(described inSection 5.11.5.3), where we report the bug data from bug count report, but
LOC changes incurred for each class are reported from the LOC changes report.
Figure 5.30 presents the partial consolidated defect and change report for Android
“Mms” application.
5.11.5.7 Descriptive Statistics Report for the Incorporated Metrics
This report gives various statistical measures for each and every metric incorporated in