An empirical study on pareto based multi-objective feature selection for software defect prediction

C Ni, X Chen, F Wu, Y Shen, Q Gu - Journal of Systems and Software, 2019 - Elsevier
The performance of software defect prediction (SDP) models depend on the quality of
considered software features. Redundant features and irrelevant features may reduce the …

An empirical study on the effectiveness of feature selection for cross-project defect prediction

Q Yu, J Qian, S Jiang, Z Wu, G Zhang - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software defect prediction has attracted much attention of researchers in software
engineering. At present, feature selection approaches have been introduced into software …

A framework for software defect prediction and metric selection

S Huda, S Alyahya, MM Ali, S Ahmad, J Abawajy… - IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated software defect prediction is an important and fundamental activity in the domain
of software development. However, modern software systems are inherently large and …

Software defect prediction based on enhanced metaheuristic feature selection optimization and a hybrid deep neural network

K Zhu, S Ying, N Zhang, D Zhu - Journal of Systems and Software, 2021 - Elsevier
Software defect prediction aims to identify the potential defects of new software modules in
advance by constructing an effective prediction model. However, the model performance is …

A feature selection model for software defect prediction using binary Rao optimization algorithm

K Thirumoorthy - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
In this digital world, using software has become an important part of daily life and business.
The software must be rigorously tested in order to avert a financial crisis. The defect-free …

Impact of feature selection methods on the predictive performance of software defect prediction models: an extensive empirical study

AO Balogun, S Basri, S Mahamad, SJ Abdulkadir… - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Feature selection (FS) is a feasible solution for mitigating high dimensionality problem, and
many FS methods have been proposed in the context of software defect prediction (SDP) …

Performance analysis of feature selection methods in software defect prediction: a search method approach

AO Balogun, S Basri, SJ Abdulkadir, AS Hashim - applied sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Software Defect Prediction (SDP) models are built using software metrics derived from
software systems. The quality of SDP models depends largely on the quality of software …

A cluster based feature selection method for cross-project software defect prediction

C Ni, WS Liu, X Chen, Q Gu, DX Chen… - Journal of Computer …, 2017 - Springer
Cross-project defect prediction (CPDP) uses the labeled data from external source software
projects to compensate the shortage of useful data in the target project, in order to build a …

Search-based wrapper feature selection methods in software defect prediction: an empirical analysis

AO Balogun, S Basri, SA Jadid, S Mahamad… - Intelligent Algorithms in …, 2020 - Springer
High dimensionality is a data quality problem that negatively influences the predictive
capabilities of prediction models in software defect prediction (SDP). As a viable solution …

A comparative study of iterative and non-iterative feature selection techniques for software defect prediction

TM Khoshgoftaar, K Gao, A Napolitano… - Information Systems …, 2014 - Springer
Two important problems which can affect the performance of classification models are high-
dimensionality (an overabundance of independent features in the dataset) and imbalanced …