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Background: Defect prediction in software can be highly beneficial for development projects, when prediction is highly effective and defect-prone areas are predicted correctly. One of the key elements to gain effective software defect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Jarosław Hryszko , Lech Madeyski , Marta Dąbrowska , Piotr Konopka

In this paper two intensive problems faced during software application's analysis and development process arose by the software industry are briefly conversed i.e. identification of fault proneness and increase in rate of variability in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-11-16 Zeeshan Ahmed , Saman Majeed

This paper describes an approach for user (e.g. SW architect) assisting in software processes. The approach observes the user's action and tries to predict his next step. For this we use approaches in the area of machine learning (sequence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-10-07 Michael Deynet

This study explores a novel approach to predicting key bug-related outcomes, including the time to resolution, time to fix, and ultimate status of a bug, using data from the Bugzilla Eclipse Project. Specifically, we leverage features…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Sophie C. Pope , Andrew Barovic , Armin Moin

Bug prediction is a resource demanding task that is hard to automate using static source code analysis. In many fields of computer science, machine learning has proven to be extremely useful in tasks like this, however, for it to work we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tamás Aladics , Judit Jász , Rudolf Ferenc

Deep time series forecasting has emerged as a rapidly growing field in recent years. Despite the exponential growth of community interests, progress on standard benchmarks is often limited to marginal improvements. A common consensus of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuxuan Wang , Haixu Wu , Yuezhou Ma , Yuchen Fang , Ziyi Zhang , Yong Liu , Shiyu Wang , Zhou Ye , Yang Xiang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

The complex software systems developed nowadays require assessing their quality and proneness to errors. Reducing code complexity is a never-ending problem, especially in today's fast pace of software systems development. Therefore, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Laura Diana Cernau , Laura Diosan , Camelia Serban

One of the main cost factors in software development is the detection and removal of defects. However, the relationships and influencing factors of the costs and revenues of defect-detection techniques are still not well understood. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Stefan Wagner

We report on Just-in-Time catching test generation at Meta, designed to prevent bugs in large scale backend systems of hundreds of millions of line of code. Unlike traditional hardening tests, which pass at generation time, catching tests…

Predictive models are often introduced to decision-making tasks under the rationale that they improve performance over an existing decision-making policy. However, it is challenging to compare predictive performance against an existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Luke Guerdan , Amanda Coston , Kenneth Holstein , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Event prediction is the ability of anticipating future events, i.e., future real-world occurrences, and aims to support the user in deciding on actions that change future events towards a desired state. An event prediction method learns the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Janik-Vasily Benzin , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

Bug finding tools can find defects in software source code us- ing an automated static analysis. This automation may be able to reduce the time spent for other testing and review activities. For this we need to have a clear understanding of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Stefan Wagner , Jan Jürjens , Claudia Koller , Peter Trischberger

Visual quality inspection in high performance manufacturing can benefit from automation, due to cost savings and improved rigor. Deep learning techniques are the current state of the art for generic computer vision tasks like classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ahmad Mohamad Mezher , Andrew E. Marble

The effort invested in a software project is probably one of the most important and most analyzed variables in recent years in the process of project management. The limitation of algorithmic effort prediction models is their inability to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Sumeet Kaur Sehra , Yadwinder Singh Brar , Navdeep Kaur

Collecting quality data from software projects can be time-consuming and expensive. Hence, some researchers explore "unsupervised" approaches to quality prediction that does not require labelled data. An alternate technique is to use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Wei Fu , Tim Menzies

This study investigates the reliability of code generation by Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on identifying and analyzing defects in the generated code. Despite the advanced capabilities of LLMs in automating code generation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ali Mohammadi Esfahani , Nafiseh Kahani , Samuel A. Ajila

Reliable effort estimation remains an ongoing challenge to software engineers. Accurate effort estimation is the state of art of software engineering, effort estimation of software is the preliminary phase between the client and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Saleem Basha , Dhavachelvan Ponnurangam

This paper deals with diagnosability of discrete-time nonlinear systems with unknown inputs and quantized outputs. We propose a novel notion of diagnosability that we term approximate diagnosability, corresponding to the possibility of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Elena De Santis , Giordano Pola , Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

Software engineering and information systems practices seek ultimately to create the flawless product. One of the tools used to improve the quality of software development is the use of metrics. In this paper, metrics retrieved from open…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Mamdouh Alenezi , Ibrahim Abunadi

Context: Software testability is the degree to which a software system or a unit under test supports its own testing. To predict and improve software testability, a large number of techniques and metrics have been proposed by both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Vahid Garousi , Michael Felderer , Feyza Nur Kilicaslan