Recalling the "imprecision" of cross-project defect prediction

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rahman, Foyzur ^a   Posnett, Daryl ^a   Devanbu, Premkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

empirical software engineering; fault prediction; inspection

Indexed keywords

DEFECT PREDICTION; DEFECT PREDICTION MODELS; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; F-SCORE; FAULT PREDICTION; HISTORICAL DATA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; NEW PROJECTS; POOR PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE QUALITY CONTROL; THRESHOLD SETTING;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; INSPECTION; LOGISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84871348143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2393596.2393669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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