Using neural networks to predict software faults during testing

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 456-462

  Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a,c   Szabo, Robert M ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Model predictive quality; Neural network; Principal components analysis; Soft ware reliability; Software product measure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VECTORS;

MODEL PREDICTIVE QUALITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT MEASURE; STANDARDIZED TRANSFORMATION MATRIX;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0030246526     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.537016     Document Type: Article

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