Software defect association mining and defect correction effort prediction

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 69-82

  Song, Qinbao ^a   Shepperd, Martin ^b   Cartwright, Michelle ^b   Mair, Carolyn ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Defect association; Defect correction effort; Defect isolation effort; Software defect prediction

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DEFECT ASSOCIATION; DEFECT CORRECTION EFFORT; DEFECT ISOLATION EFFORT; SOFTWARE DEFECT PREDICTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33644657610     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2006.1599417     Document Type: Article

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