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

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) algorithm with benchmark machine-learning classifiers… 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

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 association, estimation, clustering, classification, and… 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

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 Isomap (SLIsomap) to extract the… 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

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 (defective or non-defective). (2) we… 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

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 (KPCA), adaptive genetic algorithm, extreme… 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

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 algorithm in this paper, which… More >