Predicting fault-prone components in a Java legacy system

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 8-17

  Arisholm, Erik ^a   Briand, Lionel C ^b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design; Measurement; Verification

Indexed keywords

COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FAULT-PRONENESS PREDICTION MODELS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247367238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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