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 …

An adaptive rank aggregation-based ensemble multi-filter feature selection method in software defect prediction

AO Balogun, S Basri, LF Capretz, S Mahamad… - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Feature selection is known to be an applicable solution to address the problem of high
dimensionality in software defect prediction (SDP). However, choosing an appropriate filter …

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 …

Software defect prediction using wrapper feature selection based on dynamic re-ranking strategy

AO Balogun, S Basri, LF Capretz, S Mahamad… - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
Finding defects early in a software system is a crucial task, as it creates adequate time for
fixing such defects using available resources. Strategies such as symmetric testing have …

A cluster-based hybrid feature selection method for defect prediction

F Wang, J Ai, Z Zou - 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning is an effective method for software defect prediction. The performance of
learning models can be affected by irrelative and redundant features. Feature selection …

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 …

Empirical analysis of rank aggregation-based multi-filter feature selection methods in software defect prediction

AO Balogun, S Basri, S Mahamad, SJ Abdulkadir… - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Selecting the most suitable filter method that will produce a subset of features with the best
performance remains an open problem that is known as filter rank selection problem. A …

Empirical investigation of hyperparameter optimization for software defect count prediction

M Nevendra, P Singh - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Prior identification of defects in software modules can help testers to allocate limited
resources efficiently. Defect prediction techniques are helpful for this situation because they …

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 …