Empirical assessment of machine learning based software defect prediction techniques

Proceedings - International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, WORDS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 263-270

  Challagulla, Venkata U B ^a   Bastani, Farokh B ^a   Yen, I Ling ^a   Paul, Raymond A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b Department of Defense ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN-BELIEF NETWORKS; CODE SYNTHESIS; PLANNING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE SYSTEM;

BINARY CODES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; NEURAL NETWORKS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 27544499415     PISSN: 15301443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WORDS.2005.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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