Bayesian networks for evidence-based decision-making in software engineering

AT Misirli, AB Bener - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recommendation systems in software engineering (SE) should be designed to integrate
evidence into practitioners experience. Bayesian networks (BNs) provide a natural statistical …

A 20‐year mapping of Bayesian belief networks in software project management

ALR de Sousa, CRB de Souza, RQ Reis - IET Software, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, more software engineering researchers have focussed on methods,
techniques, tools, and processes to support software project management (SPM) addressing …

Software project and quality modelling using Bayesian networks

N Fenton, P Hearty, M Neil, L Radlinski - … intelligence applications for …, 2010 - igi-global.com
This chapter provides an introduction to the use of Bayesian Network (BN) models in
Software Engineering. A short overview of the theory of BNs is included, together with an …

A mapping study on Bayesian networks for software quality prediction

AT Misirli, AB Bener - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Bayesian Networks (BN) have been used for decision making in software engineering for
many years. We investigate the current status of BNs in predicting software quality in three …

A Bayesian belief network model and tool to evaluate risk and impact in software development projects

AKT Hui, DB Liu - Annual Symposium Reliability and …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A recent survey indicates that 53% of software development projects are over budget,
behind schedule, or deliver fewer features than originally specified. Statistics also show that …

A systematic literature review on the applications of Bayesian networks to predict software quality

A Tosun, AB Bener, S Akbarinasaji - Software Quality Journal, 2017 - Springer
Bayesian networks (BN) have been used for decision making in software engineering for
many years. In other fields such as bioinformatics, BNs are rigorously evaluated in terms of …

Using Bayesian networks to predict software defects and reliability

N Fenton, M Neil, D Marquez - … , Part O: Journal of Risk and …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper reviews the use of Bayesian networks (BNs) in predicting software defects and
software reliability. The approach allows analysts to incorporate causal process factors as …

Predicting software defects in varying development lifecycles using Bayesian nets

N Fenton, M Neil, W Marsh, P Hearty, D Marquez… - Information and …, 2007 - Elsevier
An important decision in software projects is when to stop testing. Decision support tools for
this have been built using causal models represented by Bayesian Networks (BNs) …

A probabilistic model for predicting software development effort

PC Pendharkar, GH Subramanian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, Bayesian probabilistic models have been used for predicting software
development effort. One of the reasons for the interest in the use of Bayesian probabilistic …

Building large-scale Bayesian networks

M Neil, N Fenton, L Nielson - The Knowledge Engineering Review, 2000 - cambridge.org
Bayesian networks (BNs) model problems that involve uncertainty. A BN is a directed graph,
whose nodes are the uncertain variables and whose edges are the causal or influential links …