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Software dependency network metrics extracted from the dependency graph of the software modules by the application of Social Network Analysis (SNA metrics) have been shown to improve the performance of the Software Defect prediction (SDP)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Lina Gong , Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur , Ahmed E. Hassan , Shujuan Jiang

Software defect prediction models are classifiers that are constructed from historical software data. Such software defect prediction models have been proposed to help developers optimize the limited Software Quality Assurance (SQA)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Jirayus Jiarpakdee , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , John Grundy

Background. Test resources are usually limited and therefore it is often not possible to completely test an application before a release. To cope with the problem of scarce resources, development teams can apply defect prediction to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Rainer Niedermayr , Tobias Röhm , Stefan Wagner

Concurrent programs are difficult to test due to their inherent non-determinism. To address this problem, testing often requires the exploration of thread schedules of a program; this can be time-consuming when applied to real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Tingting Yu , Wei Wen , Xue Han , Jane Hayes

Cross-project defect prediction (CPDP) aims to use data from external projects as historical data may not be available from the same project. In CPDP, deciding on a particular historical project to build a training model can be difficult.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yukasa Murakami , Yuta Yamasaki , Masateru Tsunoda , Akito Monden , Amjed Tahir , Kwabena Ebo Bennin , Koji Toda , Keitaro Nakasai

Defect prediction is crucial for software quality assurance and has been extensively researched over recent decades. However, prior studies rarely focus on data complexity in defect prediction tasks, and even less on understanding the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Xiaohui Wan , Zheng Zheng , Fangyun Qin , Xuhui Lu

In recent years, cross-project defect prediction (CPDP) attracted much attention and has been validated as a feasible way to address the problem of local data sparsity in newly created or inactive software projects. Unfortunately, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Peng He , Yutao Ma , Bing Li

The research on developing software defect prediction (SDP) models is targeted at reducing the workload on the tester and, thereby, the time spent on the targeted module. However, while a considerable amount of research has been done on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Umamaheswara Sharma B , Ravichandra Sadam

Cross-Project-Defect Prediction as a sub-topic of defect prediction in general has become a popular topic in research. In this article, we present a systematic mapping study with the focus on CPDP, for which we found 50 publications. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Steffen Herbold

Python's dynamic nature complicates testing and increases the possibility that some defects evade detection, so an effective fault prediction becomes essential. We examine whether post-release faults can be predicted using modern ML and DL.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Giuseppe De Rosa , Pietro Liguori

Software defect prediction is an important aspect of preventive maintenance of a software. Many techniques have been employed to improve software quality through defect prediction. This paper introduces an approach of defect prediction…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Junaid Ali Reshi , Satwinder Singh

This study focuses on the problem of credit default prediction, builds a modeling framework based on machine learning, and conducts comparative experiments on a variety of mainstream classification algorithms. Through preprocessing, feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shiqi Yang , Ziyi Huang , Wengran Xiao , Xinyu Shen

Many applications of machine learning methods involve an iterative protocol in which data are collected, a model is trained, and then outputs of that model are used to choose what data to consider next. For example, one data-driven approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Clara Fannjiang , Stephen Bates , Anastasios N. Angelopoulos , Jennifer Listgarten , Michael I. Jordan

A well-known approach for identifying defect-prone parts of software in order to focus testing is to use different kinds of product metrics such as size or complexity. Although this approach has been evaluated in many contexts, the question…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Frank Elberzhager , Stephan Kremer , Jürgen Münch , Danilo Assmann

An increasing number of software companies have already realized the importance of storing project-related data as valuable sources of information for training prediction models. Such kind of modeling opens the door for the implementation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Victor Uc-Cetina

The size of a software artifact influences the software quality and impacts the development process. In industry, when software size exceeds certain thresholds, memory errors accumulate and development tools might not be able to cope…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Jan Schroeder , Christian Berger , Alessia Knauss , Harri Preenja , Mohammad Ali , Miroslaw Staron , Thomas Herpel

The dynamic software development organizations optimize the usage of resources to deliver the products in the specified time with the fulfilled requirements. This requires prevention or repairing of the faults as quick as possible. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-12-14 R Bremananth , R Thushara

Software testing is one of the important ways to ensure the quality of software. It is found that testing cost more than 50% of overall project cost. Effective and efficient software testing utilizes the minimum resources of software.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ali Nawaz , Attique Ur Rehman , Muhammad Abbas

Defect prediction can be a powerful tool to guide the use of quality assurance resources. In recent years, many researchers focused on the problem of Cross-Project Defect Prediction (CPDP), i.e., the creation of prediction models based on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Steffen Herbold

The label quality of defect data sets has a direct influence on the reliability of defect prediction models. In this study, for multi-version-project defect data sets, we propose an approach to automatically detecting instances with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Shiran Liu , Zhaoqiang Guo , Yanhui Li , Chuanqi Wang , Lin Chen , Zhongbin Sun , Yuming Zhou