software quality assurance

Change Bursts as Defect Predictors – ISSRE 2010

by kim August 3, 2010

In software development, every change induces a risk. What happens if code changes again and again in some period of time? In an empirical study on Windows Vista, we found that the features of such change bursts have the highest predictive power for defect-prone components. With precision and recall values well above 90%, change bursts [...]