Context Several issues hinder software defect data including redundancy, correlation,
feature irrelevance and missing samples. It is also hard to ensure balanced distribution …

Software quality is a field of study and practice that describes the desirable attributes of
software products. The performance must be perfect without any defects. Software quality …

Software quality is an important factor in the success of software companies. Traditional
software quality assurance techniques face some serious limitations especially in terms of …

Software defect prediction suffers from the class-imbalance. Solving the class-imbalance is
more important for improving the prediction performance. SMOTE is a useful over-sampling …

Software has become a vital part of human's life-hence building defect free software is a
must. Various studies have been carried out to predict defects, probability of defect prone …

Context Software defect prediction (SDP) is an important task in software engineering. Along
with estimating the number of defects remaining in software systems and discovering defect …

The method of recognizing faults in a software system is acknowledged as software fault
prediction. Software faults predicted in prior stages help in the management of resources …

Software is a complex entity composed in various modules with varied range of defect
occurrence possibility. Efficient and timely prediction of defect occurrence in software allows …

A variety of classification algorithms for software defect detection have been developed over
the years. How to select an appropriate classifier for a given task is an important issue in …

Automated reliability assessment is essential for systems that entail dynamic adaptation
based on runtime mission-specific requirements. One approach along this direction is to …