Title
Synthetic Minority Over-sampling TEchnique(SMOTE) for Predicting Software Build Outcomes.
Abstract
In this research we use a data stream approach to mining data and construct Decision Tree models that predict software build outcomes in terms of software metrics that are derived from source code used in the software construction process. The rationale for using the data stream approach was to track the evolution of the prediction model over time as builds are incrementally constructed from previous versions either to remedy errors or to enhance functionality. As the volume of data available for mining from the software repository that we used was limited, we synthesized new data instances through the application of the SMOTE oversampling algorithm. The results indicate that a small number of the available metrics have significance for prediction software build outcomes. It is observed that classification accuracy steadily improves after approximately 900 instances of builds have been fed to the classifier. At the end of the data streaming process classification accuracies of 80% were achieved, though some bias arises due to the distribution of data across the two classes over time.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
CoRR
jazz,software metrics,data stream mining
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Decision tree,Data stream mining,Software repository,Computer science,Source code,Software build,Data stream,Software metric,Software construction
Journal
abs/1407.2330
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Russel Pears120527.00
Jacqui Finlay2232.15
Andy Connor37212.71