On the Influential Interactive Factors on Degrees of Design Decay: A Multi-Project Study

Replication Package - Table of Contents

The following table contains links to different parts of our replication package:

Links	Description
Data Set	Contains instructions and links to the different files that compose the dataset used in the paper.
Manual Validation	Provides the data and details about the execution of our manual validation.
Software Metrics List	Presents the full list of software metrics used in this work to represent the internal quality attributes.
Additional Analysis - Score Distribution	Provide a violin plot presenting the distribution per project of the score used to classify classes into slightly- and largely-decayed.
Additional Analysis - Score Adequation	Additional analysis, aiming to observe whether the method used to calculate the decay score was adequate for our context, which is to improve maintainability.
Additional Analysis - Closed Source vs. Open Source	Additional analysis, aiming to observe whether there are differences in how design decay behaves between closed- and open-source systems.
Visualization - Association Rules	Provide a set of visualizations (generated by the arulesviz R package) for the most relevant association rules mined in this work.