A Study on Modeling Techniques in Software Fault Prediction

Bhandari, Kirti; Kumar, Kuldeep; Sangal, Amrit Lal

doi:10.1109/icsccc51823.2021.9478119

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“…The production of higher quality software products using minimal development resources remains a primary goal of the software industry. However, as software expands in size and complexity, identifying all of the defects becomes increasingly challenging 5 . Figure 1 depicts a common process of SDP.…”

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A research landscape on software defect prediction

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Khan

Felix

2023

J Software Evolu Process

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Software defect prediction is the process of identifying defective files and modules that need rigorous testing. In the literature, several secondary studies including systematic reviews, mapping studies, and review studies have been reported. However, no research work such as a tertiary study that combines secondary studies has focused on providing a landscape of software defect prediction useful to understand the body of knowledge. Motivated by this, we intend to perform a tertiary study by following a systematic literature review protocol to provide a research landscape of the targeted domain. We synthesize the quality of the secondary studies and investigate the employed techniques and the performance evaluation measures for evaluating the software defect prediction model. Furthermore, this study aims at exploring different datasets employed in the reported experimentation. Moreover, the current study intends at highlighting the research trends, gaps, and opportunities in the targeted research domain. The results indicate that none of the reported defect prediction techniques can be regarded as the best; however, the reported techniques performed better in different testing situations. In addition, machine learning (ML)‐based techniques perform better than traditional statistical techniques mainly due to the potential of discovering the defects and generating generalized results. Moreover, the obtained results highlight the need for further work in the domain of ML‐based techniques. Furthermore, publicly available datasets should be considered for experimentation or replication purposes. The potential future work can focus on data quality, ethical ML, cross‐project defect prediction, early defect prediction process, class imbalance problem, and model overfitting.

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“…However, as software expands in size and complexity, identifying all of the defects becomes increasingly challenging. 5 Figure 1 depicts a common process of SDP. The process starts by building a prediction model using datasets from software archives, such as version control systems, issue tracking systems, and e-mail archives.…”

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