An analysis of developer metrics for fault prediction

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Matsumoto, Shinsuke ^a   Kamei, Yasutaka ^b   Monden, Akito ^c   Matsumoto, Ken Ichi ^c   Nakamura, Masahide ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developer metrics; Fault prediction; Human factor

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DEVELOPER METRICS; FAULT INJECTION; FAULT PREDICTION; HUMAN FACTORS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FORECASTING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 78649777129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1868328.1868356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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