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Sep 2026
Assessing the Construct Validity of Object-Oriented, Class-Level Code Quality Metrics
Background: Code quality metrics are intended to measure latent properties of software source code. Although numerous code metrics have been proposed and used, their construct validity is rarely evaluated. Thus, the extent to which code metrics actually measure what they claim to measure is often unclear. Aim: Drawing...
Hera Arif, M. Kuutila, Paul Ralph
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