Research Article

Characterizing Software Stability via Change Propagation Simulation

Table 6

Comparison of the results obtained by the approaches applied to ant.

Key Classes SM_SW+HITS SM_SO+HITS -index -index

Project
UnknownElement
Task
Main
IntrospectionHelper
ProjectHelper
RuntimeConfigurable
Target
ElementHandler
TaskContainer

Recall 30% 30% 30% 20% 80%
Precision 5% 5% 2.22% 1.48% 5.90%
F1 8.57% 8.57% 4.10% 2.76% 10.99%
F5 25.16% 25.16% 20.19% 13.50% 53.94%