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study suggests that the design evolution measures are better predictors of fault
proneness than more traditional static design measures (Kpodjedo etal. 2011).
4.4.4 Validating Measures
Many soware measures have been proposed to capture the value of a
particular attribute. For example, several measures claim to measure the
complexity of code. As we saw in Chapter 3, a measure is said to be valid
if it reects the characteristics of an attribute under diering conditions.
us, suppose code module X has complexity measure C. e code is aug-
mented with new code, and the resulting module X′ is now perceived to
be much ...