Predicting Component Failures at Design Time
- ISESE 2006
by
Adrian Schröter, Thomas Zimmermann, Andreas Zeller
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Pages 18-27, September 2006.
Digital Library via DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159739 - Local copy: Download as PDF file.
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Abstract
How do design decisions impact the quality of the resulting software? In an empirical study of 52 ECLIPSE plug-ins, we found that the software design as well as past failure history, can be used to build models which accurately predict failure-prone components in new programs. Our prediction only requires usage relationships between components, which are typically defined in the design phase; thus, designers can easily explore and assess design alternatives in terms of predicted quality. In the ECLIPSE study, 90% of the 5% most failure-prone components, as predicted by our model from design data, turned out to actually produce failures later; a random guess would have predicted only 33%.
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{schroeter-isese-2006,
title = "Predicting Component Failures at Design Time",
author = "Adrian Schröter and Thomas Zimmermann and Andreas Zeller",
year = "2006",
month = sep,
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering",
location = "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil",
pages = "18--27",
doi = "10.1145/1159733.1159739",
}