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defect clustering: a standalone construct

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the empirical regularity that a small share of modules contains most of a system's faults.

In software engineering, defect clustering refers to the empirical regularity that a small share of modules contains most of a system's faults. This meaning comes from Fenton (2000) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.[1]

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Fenton, N. E., & Ohlsson, N. (2000). Quantitative analysis of faults and failures in a complex software system. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 26(8), 797-814. https://doi.org/10.1109/32.879815

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