Over the last decade automated predictive models have become very popular in a wide
range of software engineering research areas, including software requirements, software …

Predictive models are one of the most important techniques that are widely applied in many
areas of software engineering. There have been a large number of primary studies that …

CONTEXT:: How can quality of software systems be predicted before deployment? In
attempting to answer this question, prediction models are advocated in several studies. The …

A major problem faced by software project managers is to develop good quality software
products within tight schedules and budget constraints [1]. Predictive modeling, in the …

Within software engineering prediction systems, experiments are undertaken primarily to
investigate relationships and to measure/compare models' accuracy. This paper discusses …

Abstract Models play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of software
systems, but are often neglected during the development process due to the considerable …

• Not a measure of software size• Not a measure of software effort• Not a measure of
delivered software capability• A quantity derived from software component sizes and reuse …

Defect prediction has always fascinated researchers and practitioners. The promise of being
able to predict the future and act to improve it is hard to resist. However, the operational data …

Welcome to the Empirical Software Engineering's special issue on predictive models in
software engineering. The goal of such methods is repeatable, refutable (and possibly …

Software quality is the set of inherent characteristics that are built into a software product
throughout software development process. An important indicator of software quality is the …