Defect prediction with neural networks

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Stites ◽  
Bryan Ward ◽  
Robert V. Walters
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Defect Prediction

Software Defect Prediction Using Genetic Programming and Neural Networks

2020 ◽  
pp. 1577-1597
Author(s):  
Mohammed Akour ◽  
Wasen Yahya Melhem
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Genetic Programming ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Defect Prediction ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Software Defect Prediction ◽  
Classification Methods ◽  
Software Defect

This article describes how classification methods on software defect prediction is widely researched due to the need to increase the software quality and decrease testing efforts. However, findings of past researches done on this issue has not shown any classifier which proves to be superior to the other. Additionally, there is a lack of research that studies the effects and accuracy of genetic programming on software defect prediction. To find solutions for this problem, a comparative software defect prediction experiment between genetic programming and neural networks are performed on four datasets from the NASA Metrics Data repository. Generally, an interesting degree of accuracy is detected, which shows how the metric-based classification is useful. Nevertheless, this article specifies that the application and usage of genetic programming is highly recommended due to the detailed analysis it provides, as well as an important feature in this classification method which allows the viewing of each attributes impact in the dataset.

DEFECT PREDICTION USING CASE-BASED REASONING: AN ATTRIBUTE WEIGHTING TECHNIQUE BASED UPON SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN NEURAL NETWORKS

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (06) ◽  
pp. 747-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELHAM PAIKARI ◽  
MICHAEL M. RICHTER ◽  
GUENTHER RUHE
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Defect Prediction ◽  
Case Based Reasoning ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Attribute Weighting ◽  
Weight Calculation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Case Based

Software defect prediction is an acknowledged approach used to achieve better product quality and to better utilize resources needed for that purpose. One known method for predicting the number of defects is to apply case-based reasoning (CBR). In this paper, different attribute weighting techniques for CBR-based defect prediction are analyzed. One of the weighting techniques used in this work, Sensitivity Analysis based on Neural Networks (SANN), is based on sensitivity analysis of the impact of attributes as part of neural network analysis. Neural networks are applicable when there are non-linear and complicated relationships among the attributes. Since weighting plays a key role in the CBR model, using an efficient weight calculation method can change the results. The results of SANN are compared with applying uniform weights and weights gained from Multiple Linear Regression (MLR).Evaluation of the accuracy of the overall method for applying the three different weighting techniques is done over five data sets, comprising about 5000 modules from NASA. Two quality measures are applied: Average Absolute Error (AAE) and Average Relative Error (ARE). In addition to the variation of weighting techniques, the impact of varying the number of nearest neighbors is studied.The three main results of the empirical analysis are: (i) In the majority of cases, SANN achieves the most accurate results; (ii) uniform weighting performs better than the MLR-based weighting heuristic; and (iii) there is no significant preference pattern for defining the number of similar objects used for prediction in CBR.

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