Empirical assessment of machine learning based software defect prediction techniques

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 389-400

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

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b Department of Defense ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Software defect prediction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

PREDICTOR MODELS; SOFTWARE DEFECT PREDICTION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 44349135014     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218213008003947     Document Type: Article

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