Prediction of fault-prone software modules using a generic text discriminator

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E91-D, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 888-896

  Mizuno, Osamu ^a   Kikuno, Tohru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fault prone module; Prediction; Spam filter

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA MINING; DISCRIMINATORS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FILTRATION; FORECASTING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS;

DETECTION APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATION; FAULT-PRONE MODULES; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOURCE CODE REPOSITORIES; SPAM FILTER; SPAM FILTERING TECHNIQUE;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 68149168783     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e91-d.4.888     Document Type: Article

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