A novel software defect prediction approach using modified objective cluster analysis

Author(s):  
Junhua Ren ◽  
Qing Zhang
2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cagatay Catal

AbstractPredicting the defect-prone modules when the previous defect labels of modules are limited is a challenging problem encountered in the software industry. Supervised classification approaches cannot build high-performance prediction models with few defect data, leading to the need for new methods, techniques, and tools. One solution is to combine labeled data points with unlabeled data points during learning phase. Semi-supervised classification methods use not only labeled data points but also unlabeled ones to improve the generalization capability. In this study, we evaluated four semi-supervised classification methods for semi-supervised defect prediction. Low-density separation (LDS), support vector machine (SVM), expectation-maximization (EM-SEMI), and class mass normalization (CMN) methods have been investigated on NASA data sets, which are CM1, KC1, KC2, and PC1. Experimental results showed that SVM and LDS algorithms outperform CMN and EM-SEMI algorithms. In addition, LDS algorithm performs much better than SVM when the data set is large. In this study, the LDS-based prediction approach is suggested for software defect prediction when there are limited fault data.


2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1298-1320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing GU ◽  
Shulong LIU ◽  
Wangshu LIU ◽  
Daoxu CHEN ◽  
Xiang CHEN

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1148-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui-Yan JIANG ◽  
Mao ZONG ◽  
Xiang-Ying LIU

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 925-932
Author(s):  
Hua WEI ◽  
Chun SHAN ◽  
Changzhen HU ◽  
Yu ZHANG ◽  
Xiao YU

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