Key questions in building defect prediction models in practice

Author(s) Rudolf Ramler
Klaus Wolfmaier
Erwin Stauder
Felix Kossak
Thomas Natschläger
Title Key questions in building defect prediction models in practice
Booktitle Key Questions in Building Defect Prediction Models in Practice - Proceedings 10th International Confercne PROFES 2009
Typ Inproceedings
Month June
Year 2009
Volume 32
Serie Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Pages 14-27
Editor(s) F. Bomarius, M. Oivo, P. Jaring, P. Abrahamsson
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN 978-3-642-02151,0
SCCH # 0915
Note nominated as best paper
The information about which modules of a future version of a software system are defect-prone is a valuable planning aid for quality managers and testers. Defect prediction promises to indicate these defect-prone modules. However, constructing effective defect prediction models in an industrial setting involves a number of key questions. In this paper we discuss ten key questions identified in context of establishing defect prediction in a large software development project. Seven consecutive versions of the software system have been used to construct and validate defect prediction models for system test planning. Furthermore, the paper presents initial empirical results from the studied project and, by this means, contributes answers to the identified questions.