Can data transformation help in the detection of fault-prone modules?

DEFECTS'08: 2008 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis - Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Defects in Large Software Systems 2008, DEFECTS'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 16-20

  Jiang, Yue ^a   Cukic, Bojan ^a   Menzies, Tim ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DEFECTS; FAULT DETECTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NASA; SOFTWARE TESTING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCES; DATA PRE-PROCESSING; DATA SETS; DATA TRANSFORMATIONS; DISCRETIZATION; LOG TRANSFORMATIONS; MACHINE LEARNINGS; METRICS DATA PROGRAMS; PREPROCESSING METHODS; RANDOM FOREST ALGORITHMS; TRANSFORMATION TECHNIQUES;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 57349147671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390817.1390822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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