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The role of process in early software defect prediction: Methods, attributes and metrics

  • Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

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Abstract

Software quality is the set of inherent characteristics that are built into a software product throughout software development process. An important indicator of software quality is the trend of software defects in the life-cycle. The models of software defect prediction and software reliability provide the opportunity for practitioners to observe the defectiveness distribution of their products in development and operation. However, reported studies are mostly focused on coding or testing stages. Though this is reasonable due to executable nature of the product, it prevents practitioners from taking the advantages (such as cost reduction) of identifying and predicting software defects earlier in the life-cycle. This paper, therefore, provides an overview of the trend of early software defect prediction studies as retrieved by a systematic mapping of the literature, and elaborates on the methods, attributes, and metrics of the studies that comprise software process data in the defect prediction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSoftware Process Improvement and Capability Determination - 16th International Conference, SPICE 2016, Proceedings
EditorsAlec Dorling, Rory V. O’Connor, Paul M. Clarke, Terry Rout
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages287-300
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783319389790
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event16th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2016 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 9 Jun 201610 Jun 2016

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume609
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2016
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period9/06/1610/06/16

Keywords

  • Defect prediction
  • Early
  • Prediction model
  • Process metrics
  • Software defect
  • Software quality
  • Software reliability
  • Systematic mapping

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