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Software defect prediction is the process of identifying new defects/bugs in software modules. Software defect presents an error in a computer program, which is caused by incorrect code or incorrect programming logic. As a result, undiscovered defects lead to a poor quality software products. In recent years, software defect prediction has received a considerable amount of attention from researchers. Most of the previous defect detection algorithms are marred by low defect detection ratios. Furthermore, software defect prediction is very challenging problem due to the high imbalanced distribution, where the bug-free codes are much higher than defective ones. In this paper, the software defect prediction problem is formulated as a classification task, and then it examines the impact of several ensembles methods on the classification effectiveness. In addition, the best ensemble classifier will be selected to be trained again on an over-sampled datasets using the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) algorithm to tackle imbalanced distribution problem. The proposed hybrid method is evaluated using four software defects datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively enhance the defect prediction accuracy.
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Alsawalqah, H., Faris, H., Aljarah, I., Alnemer, L., Alhindawi, N. (2017). Hybrid SMOTE-Ensemble Approach for Software Defect Prediction. In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z., Senkerik, R., Kominkova Oplatkova, Z. (eds) Software Engineering Trends and Techniques in Intelligent Systems. CSOC 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 575. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57141-6_39
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