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International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

PROFES 2009: Product-Focused Software Process Improvement pp 43–58Cite as

Prediction of Software Quality Model Using Gene Expression Programming

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 32))

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There has been number of measurement techniques proposed in the literature. These metrics can be used in assessing quality of software products, thereby controlling costs and schedules. The empirical validation of object-oriented (OO) metrics is essential to ensure their practical relevance in industrial settings. In this paper, we empirically validate OO metrics given by Chidamber and Kemerer for their ability to predict software quality in terms of fault proneness. In order to analyze these metrics we use gene expression programming (GEP). Here, we explore the ability of OO metrics using defect data for open source software. Further, we develop a software quality metric and suggest ways in which software professional may use this metric for process improvement. We conclude that GEP can be used in detecting fault prone classes. We also conclude that the proposed metric may be effectively used by software managers tin predicting faulty classes in earlier phases of software development.

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  1. University School of Information Technology, GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi, 110403, India

    Yogesh Singh, Arvinder Kaur & Ruchika Malhotra

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  1. Fraunhofer IIESE, Fraunhoferplatz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Frank Bomarius

  2. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, P.O.Box 3000, 90014, Finland

    Markku Oivo

  3. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tietotie 3, 02150, Espoo, Finland

    Päivi Jaring

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 68, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

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Singh, Y., Kaur, A., Malhotra, R. (2009). Prediction of Software Quality Model Using Gene Expression Programming. In: Bomarius, F., Oivo, M., Jaring, P., Abrahamsson, P. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02152-7_5

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