Saleh Albahli^1,*, Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.41, No.3, pp. 1117-1127, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.021750 - 10 November 2021

Abstract Data available in software engineering for many applications contains variability and it is not possible to say which variable helps in the process of the prediction. Most of the work present in software defect prediction is focused on the selection of best prediction techniques. For this purpose, deep learning and ensemble models have shown promising results. In contrast, there are very few researches that deals with cleaning the training data and selection of best parameter values from the data. Sometimes data available for training the models have high variability and this variability may cause a… More >

Zuhaira Muhammad Zain^1,*, Sapiah Sakri¹, Nurul Halimatul Asmak Ismail², Reza M. Parizi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 1521-1546, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022085 - 03 November 2021

Abstract Developing successful software with no defects is one of the main goals of software projects. In order to provide a software project with the anticipated software quality, the prediction of software defects plays a vital role. Machine learning, and particularly deep learning, have been advocated for predicting software defects, however both suffer from inadequate accuracy, overfitting, and complicated structure. In this paper, we aim to address such issues in predicting software defects. We propose a novel structure of 1-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (1D-CNN), a deep learning architecture to extract useful knowledge, identifying and modelling the… More >

Mohammad Sh. Daoud¹, Shabib Aftab^2,3, Munir Ahmad², Muhammad Adnan Khan^4,5,*, Ahmed Iqbal³, Sagheer Abbas², Muhammad Iqbal², Baha Ihnaini^6,7

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 1287-1300, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020362 - 22 September 2021

Abstract Production of high-quality software at lower cost has always been the main concern of developers. However, due to exponential increases in size and complexity, the development of qualitative software with lower costs is almost impossible. This issue can be resolved by identifying defects at the early stages of the development lifecycle. As a significant amount of resources are consumed in testing activities, if only those software modules are shortlisted for testing that is identified as defective, then the overall cost of development can be reduced with the assurance of high quality. An artificial neural network… More >

Bushra Mumtaz¹, Summrina Kanwal^2,*, Sultan Alamri², Faiza Khan¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.29, No.3, pp. 669-684, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.018405 - 01 July 2021

Abstract Software Defect Prediction (SDP) is a dynamic research field in the software industry. A quality software product results in customer satisfaction. However, the higher the number of user requirements, the more complex will be the software, with a correspondingly higher probability of failure. SDP is a challenging task requiring smart algorithms that can estimate the quality of a software component before it is handed over to the end-user. In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach to address this particular issue. Our approach combines the feature selection capability of the Optimized Artificial Immune Networks (Opt-aiNet) More >

Faseeha Matloob¹, Shabib Aftab^1,2, Munir Ahmad², Muhammad Adnan Khan^3,*, Areej Fatima⁴, Muhammad Iqbal², Wesam Mohsen Alruwaili⁵, Nouh Sabri Elmitwally^5,6

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.29, No.2, pp. 403-421, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.017562 - 16 June 2021

Abstract Software defect prediction (SDP) is the process of detecting defect-prone software modules before the testing stage. The testing stage in the software development life cycle is expensive and consumes the most resources of all the stages. SDP can minimize the cost of the testing stage, which can ultimately lead to the development of higher-quality software at a lower cost. With this approach, only those modules classified as defective are tested. Over the past two decades, many researchers have proposed methods and frameworks to improve the performance of the SDP process. The main research topics are More >

Kun Zhu¹, Nana Zhang¹, Qing Zhang², Shi Ying^{1, *}, Xu Wang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1467-1486, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011415 - 20 August 2020

Abstract Software defect prediction plays a very important role in software quality assurance, which aims to inspect as many potentially defect-prone software modules as possible. However, the performance of the prediction model is susceptible to high dimensionality of the dataset that contains irrelevant and redundant features. In addition, software metrics for software defect prediction are almost entirely traditional features compared to the deep semantic feature representation from deep learning techniques. To address these two issues, we propose the following two solutions in this paper: (1) We leverage a novel non-linear manifold learning method - SOINN Landmark… More >

Nana Zhang¹, Kun Zhu¹, Shi Ying^{1, *}, Xu Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 279-308, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011001 - 23 July 2020

Abstract Software defect prediction plays an important role in software quality assurance. However, the performance of the prediction model is susceptible to the irrelevant and redundant features. In addition, previous studies mostly regard software defect prediction as a single objective optimization problem, and multi-objective software defect prediction has not been thoroughly investigated. For the above two reasons, we propose the following solutions in this paper: (1) we leverage an advanced deep neural network—Stacked Contractive AutoEncoder (SCAE) to extract the robust deep semantic features from the original defect features, which has stronger discrimination capacity for different classes… More >

Nana Zhang¹, Kun Zhu¹, Shi Ying^{1, *}, Xu Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.1, pp. 471-499, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010117 - 20 May 2020

Abstract Software defect prediction is a research hotspot in the field of software engineering. However, due to the limitations of current machine learning algorithms, we can’t achieve good effect for defect prediction by only using machine learning algorithms. In previous studies, some researchers used extreme learning machine (ELM) to conduct defect prediction. However, the initial weights and biases of the ELM are determined randomly, which reduces the prediction performance of ELM. Motivated by the idea of search based software engineering, we propose a novel software defect prediction model named KAEA based on kernel principal component analysis… More >

Kun Zhu¹, Nana Zhang¹, Shi Ying^{1, *}, Xu Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.2, pp. 891-910, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08096 - 01 May 2020

Abstract With the continuous expansion of software scale, software update and maintenance have become more and more important. However, frequent software code updates will make the software more likely to introduce new defects. So how to predict the defects quickly and accurately on the software change has become an important problem for software developers. Current defect prediction methods often cannot reflect the feature information of the defect comprehensively, and the detection effect is not ideal enough. Therefore, we propose a novel defect prediction model named ITNB (Improved Transfer Naive Bayes) based on improved transfer Naive Bayesian… More >