Software defect prediction is one of the most popular research topics in software
engineering. It aims to predict defect‐prone software modules before defects are discovered …

Recent studies of software defect prediction typically produce datasets, methods and
frameworks which allow software engineers to focus on development activities in terms of …

Software defect prediction is one of the most active research areas in software engineering.
Defect prediction results provide the list of defect-prone source code artifacts so that quality …

Background. The ability to predict defect-prone software components would be valuable.
Consequently, there have been many empirical studies to evaluate the performance of …

Software defect prediction has been one of the key areas of exploration in the domain of
software quality. In this paper, we perform a systematic mapping to analyze all the software …

Context Software defect prediction is a trending research topic, and a wide variety of the
published papers focus on coding phase or after. A limited number of papers, however …

Reliably predicting software defects is one of the holy grails of software engineering.
Researchers have devised and implemented a plethora of defect/bug prediction approaches …

Defect prediction has been an active research area for over four decades. Despite
numerous studies on defect prediction, the potential value of defect prediction in practice …

Context Software defect prediction plays a crucial role in estimating the most defect-prone
components of software, and a large number of studies have pursued improving prediction …

An essential objective of software development is to locate and fix defects ahead of
schedule that could be expected under diverse circumstances. Many software development …