A comparison of some soft computing methods for software fault prediction

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1872-1879

  Erturk, Ezgi ^a   Sezer, Ebru Akcapinar ^b  

^a SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adaptive neuro fuzzy systems; Artificial Neural Networks; McCabe metrics; Software fault prediction; Support Vector Machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969780549     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.10.025     Document Type: Article

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