Modeling software evolution defects: A time series approach

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-71

  Raja, Uzma ^a   Hale, David P ^a   Hale, Joanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

ARIMA; Open source software; Software defect prediction; Software evolution; Software maintenance; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEFECTS; MAINTENANCE; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARIMA; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DEFECT PREDICTION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 59349120129     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.398     Document Type: Article

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