Mining metrics to predict component failures

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 452-461

  Nagappan, Nachiappan ^a   Ball, Thomas ^a   Zeller, Andreas ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bug database; Complexity metrics; Empirical study; Principal component analysis; Regression model

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BUG DATABASE; COMPLEXITY METRICS; MICROSOFT SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; REGRESSION MODELS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 33749637286     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1134285.1134349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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