Using historical in-process and product metrics for early estimation of software failures

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 62-71

  Nagappan, Nachiappan ^a   Ball, Thomas ^a   Murphy, Brendan ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SERVERS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PRODUCT METRICS; PRODUCT QUALITY; WINDOWS XP;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 34547700305     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2006.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (31)

1. "IEEE Std 982.2-1988 IEEE guide for the use of IEEE standard dictionary of measures to produce reliable software," 1988.
2. V. Basili, Briand, L., Melo, W., "A Validation of Object Oriented Design Metrics as Quality Indicators", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 22(10), pp. 751 -761, 1996.
3. V. Basili, Shull, F.,Lanubile, F., "Building Knowledge through Families of Experiments", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 25(4), pp.456-473, 1999.
4. B. W. Boehm, Software Engineering Economics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981.
5. L. C. Briand, Wuest, J., Daly, J.W., Porter, D.V., "Exploring the Relationship between Design Measures and Software Quality in Object Oriented Systems", Journal of Systems and Software, 51(3), pp. 245-273, 2000.
6. L. C. Briand, Wuest, J., Ikonomovski, S., Lounis, H., "Investigating quality factors in object-oriented designs: an industrial case study", Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 345-354, 1999.
7. F. P. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.
8. S. R. Chidamber, Kemerer, C.F., "A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 20(6), pp. 476-493, 1994.
9. G. Denaro, Morasca, S., Pezze., M, "Deriving models of software fault-proneness", Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering Knowledge Engineering, pp. 361-368, 2002.
10. G. Denaro, Pezze., M, "An empirical evaluation of fault-proneness models", Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 241-251, 2002.
11. K. El Emam, "A Methodology for Validating Software Product Metrics," National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada NCR/ERC-1076, June 2000.
12. N. Fenton, Neil, M., "A critique of software defect prediction models", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 25(5), pp. 675-689, 1999.
13. N. E. Fenton, Ohlsson, N., "Quantitative analysis of faults and failures in a complex software system", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 26(8), pp. 797-814, 2000.
14. N. E. Fenton and S. L. Pfleeger, Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach: Brooks/Cole, 1998.
15. T. L. Graves, Karr, A.F., Marron, J.S., Siy, H., "Predicting Fault Incidence Using Software Change History", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 26(7), pp. 653-661, 2000.
16. ISO/TEC, "DIS 14598-1 Information Technology Software Product Evaluation", 1996.
17. E. J. Jackson, A Users Guide to Principal Components. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2003.
18. T. M. Khoshgoftaar, Allen, E.B., Goel, N., Nandi, A., McMullan, J., "Detection of Software Modules with high Debug Code Churn in a very large Legacy System", Proceedings of International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, pp. 364-371, 1996.
19. T. M. Khoshgoftaar, Allen, E.B., Jones,W.D., Hudepohl, J.P., "Classification-Tree Models of Software Quality Over Multiple Releases", IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 49(1), pp. 4-11, 2000.
20. T. M. Khoshgoftaar, Szabo, R.M., "Improving Code Churn Predictions During the System Test and Maintenance Phases", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, pp. 58-67, 1994.
21. T. J. McCabe, "A Complexity Measure", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2(4), pp. 308-320, 1976.
22. A. Mockus, Zhang, P., Li, P., "Drivers for customer perceived software quality", Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 225-233, 2005.
23. N. Nagappan, Ball, T., "Static Analysis Tools as Early indicators of Pre-Release Defect Density", Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 580-586, 2005.
24. N. Nagappan, Ball, T., "Use of Relative Code Churn Measures to Predict System Defect Density", Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 284-292, 2005.
25. N. Nagappan, Ball, T., Zeller, A., "Mining metrics to predict component failures", Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 452-461, 2006.
26. N. J. D. Nagelkerke, "A note on a general definition of the coefficient of determination", Biometrika, 78(3), pp. 691-692, 1991.
27. M. C. Ohlsson, von Mayrhauser, A., McGuire, B., Wohlin, C., "Code Decay Analysis of Legacy Software through Successive Releases", Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 69-81, 1999.
28. T. J. Ostrand, Weyuker, E.J, Bell, R.M., "Where the Bugs Are", Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, pp. 86-96, 2004.
29. R. Subramanyam, Krishnan, M.S., "Empirical Analysis of CK Metrics for Object-Oriented Design Complexity: Implications for Software Defects", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 29(4), pp. 297-310, 2003.
30. M.-H. Tang, Kao, M-H., Chen, M-H., "An empirical study on object-oriented metrics", Proceedings of Sixth International Software Metrics Symposium, pp. 242-249, 1999.
31. T. Zimmermann, Weißgerber, P., Diehl, S., Zeller, A., "Mining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes", IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering, 31(6), pp. 429-445, 2005.