Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?

X Yu, J Keung, Y Xiao, S Feng, F Li, H Dai - Information and Software …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Context: Defect Number Prediction (DNP) models can offer more benefits than
classification-based defect prediction. Recently, many researchers proposed to employ …

An empirical study of ensemble techniques for software fault prediction

SS Rathore, S Kumar - Applied Intelligence, 2021 - Springer
Previously, many researchers have performed analysis of various techniques for the
software fault prediction (SFP). Oddly, the majority of such studies have shown the limited …

Empirical studies of a two-stage data preprocessing approach for software fault prediction

W Liu, S Liu, Q Gu, J Chen, X Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software fault prediction is a valuable exercise in software quality assurance to best allocate
limited testing resources. Classification is one of the effective methods for software fault …

Researcher bias: The use of machine learning in software defect prediction

M Shepperd, D Bowes, T Hall - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Background. The ability to predict defect-prone software components would be valuable.
Consequently, there have been many empirical studies to evaluate the performance of …

An empirical study toward dealing with noise and class imbalance issues in software defect prediction

SK Pandey, AK Tripathi - Soft Computing, 2021 - Springer
The quality of the defect datasets is a critical issue in the domain of software defect
prediction (SDP). These datasets are obtained through the mining of software repositories …