Title
An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Feature Selection for Cross-Project Defect Prediction.
Abstract
Software defect prediction has attracted much attention of researchers in software engineering. At present, feature selection approaches have been introduced into software defect prediction, which can improve the performance of traditional defect prediction (known as within-project defect prediction, WPDP) effectively. However, the studies on feature selection are not sufficient for cross-project defect prediction (CPDP). In this paper, we use the feature subset selection and feature ranking approaches to explore the effectiveness of feature selection for CPDP. An empirical study is conducted on NASA and PROMISE datasets. The results show that both the feature subset selection and feature ranking approaches can improve the performance of CPDP. Therefore, we should select the representative feature subset or set a reasonable proportion of selected features to improve the performance of CPDP in future studies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2895614
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software defect prediction,cross-project defect prediction,feature selection,feature ranking
Data modeling,Data mining,Feature selection,Computer science,Feature ranking,Software bug,Feature extraction,Software,Cross project,Empirical research,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu Qiao12267152.01
Junyan Qian25323.00
Shujuan Jiang313019.94
Zhenhua Wu401.01
Gongjie Zhang500.68