Predicting defects using change genealogies

2013 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 118-127

  Herzig, Kim ^a   Just, Sascha ^b   Rau, Andreas ^b   Zeller, Andreas ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data mining; Predictive models; Software engineering; Software qual ity

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; CODE COMPLEXITY; DEFECT PREDICTION MODELS; DEPENDENCY NETWORKS; INDIRECT EFFECTS; MUTUAL DEPENDENCIES; PREDICTIVE MODELS;

DATA MINING; DEFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

HISTORY;

EID: 84893296579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2013.6698911     Document Type: Conference Paper

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