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Accurate software defect prediction could help software practitioners allocate test resources to defect-prone modules effectively and efficiently. In the last decades, much effort has been devoted to build accurate defect prediction models,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Yibin Liu , Yanhui Li , Jianbo Guo , Yuming Zhou , Baowen Xu

Software fault prediction model are employed to optimize testing resource allocation by identifying fault-prone classes before testing phases. Several researchers' have validated the use of different classification techniques to develop…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Lov Kumar , Santanu Rath , Ashish Sureka

Defect prediction can be a powerful tool to guide the use of quality assurance resources. However, while lots of research covered methods for defect prediction as well as methodological aspects of defect prediction research, the actual cost…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Steffen Herbold

Several software defect prediction techniques have been developed over the past decades. These techniques predict defects at the granularity of typical software assets, such as components and files. In this paper, we investigate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mukelabai Mukelabai , Stefan Strüder , Daniel Strüber , Thorsten Berger

Product metrics, such as size or complexity, are often used to identify defect-prone parts or to focus quality assurance activities. In contrast, quality information that is available early, such as information provided by inspections, is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Frank Elberzhager , Stephan Kremer , Jürgen Münch , Danilo Assmann

Software development, despite all the significant improvements it contributes to society, is a very expensive high-risk venture. Every software project commences with the intention to deliver a software product on time and within budget,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Sergey Viktorovich Zykov , Joseph Afriyie Attakorah

With the sharp rise in software dependability and failure cost, high quality has been in great demand. However, guaranteeing high quality in software systems which have grown in size and complexity coupled with the constraints imposed on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Bassey Isong , Obeten Ekabua

Many dependability techniques expect certain behaviors from the underlying subsystems and fail in chaotic ways if these expectations are not met. Under expected circumstances, however, software tends to work quite well. This paper suggests…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 George Candea

Ensuring software quality in embedded firmware is critical, especially in safety-critical domains where compliance with functional safety standards (ISO 26262) requires strong guarantees of software reliability. While machine learning-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Marco De Luca , Domenico Amalfitano , Anna Rita Fasolino , Porfirio Tramontana

Machine Learning approaches are good in solving problems that have less information. In most cases, the software domain problems characterize as a process of learning that depend on the various circumstances and changes accordingly. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Saiqa Aleem , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

This research describes the initial effort of building a prediction model for defects in system testing carried out by an independent testing team. The motivation to have such defect prediction model is to serve as early quality indicator…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Muhammad Dhiauddin Mohamed Suffian , Suhaimi Ibrahim

Defect prediction plays a crucial role in software engineering, enabling developers to identify defect-prone code and improve software quality. While extensive research has focused on refining machine learning models for defect prediction,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Md Ahasanuzzaman , Gustavo A. Oliva , Ahmed E. Hassan , Zhen Ming , Jiang

Software defect prediction heavily relies on the metrics collected from software projects. Earlier studies often used machine learning techniques to build, validate, and improve bug prediction models using either a set of metrics collected…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Hadi Jahanshahi , Mucahit Cevik , Ayşe Başar

Over the past fifty years, numerous software defect prediction (SDP) approaches have been proposed. However, the ability to explain why predictors make certain predictions remains limited. Explainable SDP has emerged as a promising solution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Guifang Xu , Zhiling Zhu , Xingcheng Guo , Wei Wang

An increasing number of domains are providing us with detailed trace data on human decisions in settings where we can evaluate the quality of these decisions via an algorithm. Motivated by this development, an emerging line of work has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Ashton Anderson , Jon Kleinberg , Sendhil Mullainathan

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 objective of this research work is to improve the degree of excellence by removing the number of exceptions from the software. The modern age is more concerned with the quality of software. Extensive research is being carried out in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Ekbal Rashid , Srikanta Patnaik , Vandana Bhattacherjee

Analysing and improving productivity has been one of the main goals of software engineering research since its beginnings. A plethora of studies has been conducted on various factors that resulted in several models for analysis and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Stefan Wagner , Melanie Ruhe

Software product quality can be defined as the features and characteristics of the product that meet the user needs. The quality of any software can be achieved by following a well defined software process. These software process results…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Karuna Prasad , MG Divya , N Mangala

PerfDetectiveAI, a conceptual framework for performance gap analysis and suggestion in software applications is introduced in this research. For software developers, retaining a competitive edge and providing exceptional user experiences…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Vivek Basavegowda Ramu