摘要
软件缺陷预测方法可以在项目的开发初期,通过预先识别出所有可能含有缺陷的软件模块来优化测试资源的分配.早期的缺陷预测研究大多集中于同项目缺陷预测,但同项目缺陷预测需要充足的历史数据,而在实际应用中,可能需要预测项目的历史数据较为稀缺,或这个项目是一个全新项目.因此,跨项目缺陷预测问题成为当前软件缺陷预测领域内的一个研究热点,其研究挑战在于源项目与目标项目数据集间存在的分布差异性以及数据集内存在的类不平衡问题.受到基于搜索的软件工程思想的启发,提出了一种基于搜索的半监督集成跨项目软件缺陷预测方法 S^3EL.该方法首先通过调整训练集中各类数据的分布比例,构建出多个朴素贝叶斯基分类器;随后,利用具有全局搜索能力的遗传算法,基于少量已标记目标实例对上述基分类器进行集成,并构建出最终的缺陷预测模型.在Promise数据集及AEEEM数据集上与多个经典的跨项目缺陷预测方法(Burak过滤法、Peters过滤法、TCA+、CODEP及HYDRA)进行了对比.以F1值作为评测指标,结果表明:在大部分情况下,S^3EL方法可以取得最好的预测性能.
Software defect prediction can help developers to optimize the distribution of test resources by predicting whether or not a software module is defect-prone. Most defect prediction researches focus on within-project defect prediction which needs sufficient training data from the same project. However, in real software development, a project which needs defect prediction is always new or without any historical data. Therefore cross-project defect prediction becomes a hot topic which uses training data from several projects and performs prediction on another one. The main research challenges in cross-project defect prediction are the variety of distribution from source project to target project and class imbalance problem among datasets. Inspired by search based software engineering, this paper proposes a search based semi-supervised ensemble learning approach S3EL. By adjusting the ratio of distribution in training dataset,several Naive Bayes classifiers are built as the base learners, then a small amount of labeled target instances and genetic algorithm are used to combine these base classifiers as a final prediction model. S3EL is compared with other up-to-date classical cross-project defect prediction approaches （such as Burak filter, Peters filter, TCA＋, CODEP and HYDRA） on AEEEM and Promise dataset. Final results show that S3EL has the best prediction performance in most cases under the FI measure.
出处
《软件学报》
EI
CSCD
北大核心
2017年第6期1455-1473,共19页
Journal of Software
基金
国家自然科学基金(61202030
61373012
61202006
71502125)~~
关键词
跨项目软件缺陷预测
半监督学习
集成学习
遗传算法
朴素贝叶斯
cross-project defect prediction
semi-supervised learning, ensemble learning
genetic algorithm
Naive Bayes
