Test effort optimization by prediction and ranking of fault-prone software modules

2010 2nd International Conference on Reliability, Safety and Hazard, ICRESH-2010: Risk-Based Technology and Physics-of-Failure Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 136-142

  Pandey, Ajeet Kumar ^a   Goyal, Neeraj Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

fault prone modules; fuzzy inference system (FIS); ID3 algorithm; software metrics; software testing

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; FAULT-PRONE; FAULT-PRONE MODULES; FAULT-PRONENESS; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM (FIS); FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; ID3 ALGORITHM; MODEL ACCURACY; NASA PROJECTS; NEW MODEL; PROJECT DATA; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE MODULES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TESTING EFFORT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY SYSTEMS; NASA; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 79959657229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRESH.2010.5779531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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