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Empirical Research in Software Engineering
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Empirical Research in Software Engineering

by Ruchika Malhotra
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
498 pages
18h 20m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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341Validity Threats
8.3 Threats and Their Countermeasures
Identication of threats is important to assess their impact on the study outcomes and
conclusions. However, to increase the validity of the study, threats to the study should
be mitigated. It is important to not only identify the threats to a study, but a researcher
should perform a number of actions to address these threats and reduce their effect on the
outcomes of the study. To give an overview of threats to fault prediction primary studies,
we analyzed 56fault prediction studies from the year 1999to 2013. The aim of the study
is to identify the threats to validity corresponding to ...
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ISBN: 9781498719735