Interpretability application of the Just-in-Time software defect prediction model

W Zheng, T Shen, X Chen, P Deng - Journal of Systems and Software, 2022 - Elsevier
Software defect prediction is one of the most active fields in software engineering. Recently,
some experts have proposed the Just-in-time Defect Prediction Technology. Just-in-time …

BERT-and TF-IDF-based feature extraction for long-lived bug prediction in FLOSS: a comparative study

L Gomes, R da Silva Torres, ML Côrtes - Information and Software …, 2023 - Elsevier
Context: The correct prediction of long-lived bugs could help maintenance teams to build
their plan and to fix more bugs that often adversely affect software quality and disturb the …

The impact of feature importance methods on the interpretation of defect classifiers

GK Rajbahadur, S Wang, GA Oliva… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Classifier specific (CS) and classifier agnostic (CA) feature importance methods are widely
used (often interchangeably) by prior studies to derive feature importance ranks from a …

Predicting bug-fixing time: an empirical study of commercial software projects

H Zhang, L Gong, S Versteeg - 2013 35th International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For a large and evolving software system, the project team could receive many bug reports
over a long period of time. It is important to achieve a quantitative understanding of bug …

Defect prediction: Accomplishments and future challenges

Y Kamei, E Shihab - 2016 IEEE 23rd international conference …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As software systems play an increasingly important role in our lives, their complexity
continues to increase. The increased complexity of software systems makes the assurance …

Characterizing and predicting blocking bugs in open source projects

H Valdivia Garcia, E Shihab - … of the 11th working conference on mining …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
As software becomes increasingly important, its quality becomes an increasingly important
issue. Therefore, prior work focused on software quality and proposed many prediction …

Maintenance effort estimation for open source software: A systematic literature review

H Wu, L Shi, C Chen, Q Wang… - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Open Source Software (OSS) is distributed and maintained collaboratively by developers all
over the world. However, frequent personnel turnover and lack of organizational …

A literature review of research in software defect reporting

JD Strate, PA Laplante - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In 2002, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) estimated that software
defects cost the US economy in the area of $60 billion a year. It is well known that identifying …

Elblocker: Predicting blocking bugs with ensemble imbalance learning

X Xia, D Lo, E Shihab, X Wang, X Yang - Information and Software …, 2015 - Elsevier
Context Blocking bugs are bugs that prevent other bugs from being fixed. Previous studies
show that blocking bugs take approximately two to three times longer to be fixed compared …

Recommending good first issues in github oss projects

W Xiao, H He, W Xu, X Tan, J Dong… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Attracting and retaining newcomers is vital for the sustainability of an open-source software
project. However, it is difficult for newcomers to locate suitable development tasks, while …