<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Context. Software data collection precedes analysis which, in turn, requires data science related skills. Software defect prediction is hardly used in industrial projects as a quality assurance and cost reduction mean. Objectives. There are many studies and several tools which help in various data analysis tasks but there is still neither an open source tool nor standardized approach. Results. We developed Defect Prediction for software systems (DePress), which is an extensible software measurement, and data integration framework which can be used for prediction purposes (e.g. defect prediction, effort prediction) and software changes analysis (e.g. release notes, bug statistics, commits quality). DePress is based on the KNIME project and allows building workflows in a graphic, end-user friendly manner. Conclusions. We present main concepts, as well as the development state of the DePress framework. The results show that DePress can be used in Open Source, as well as in industrial project analysis.</p></abstract>

Context. Software data collection precedes analysis which, in turn, requires data science related skills. Software defect prediction is hardly used in industrial projects as a quality assurance and cost reduction mean. Objectives. There are many studies and several tools which help in various data analysis tasks but there is still neither an open source tool nor standardized approach. Results. We developed Defect Prediction for software systems (DePress), which is an extensible software measurement, and data integration framework which can be used for prediction purposes (e.g. defect prediction, effort prediction) and software changes analysis (e.g. release notes, bug statistics, commits quality). DePress is based on the KNIME project and allows building workflows in a graphic, end-user friendly manner. Conclusions. We present main concepts, as well as the development state of the DePress framework. The results show that DePress can be used in Open Source, as well as in industrial project analysis.

Software Measurement and Defect Prediction with Depress Extensible Framework

Lech Madeyski is with the Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland.

Marek Majchrzak is with the Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Technology and Capgemini Poland.

Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences

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Context. Software data collection precedes analysis which, in turn, requires data science related skills. Software defect prediction is hardly used in...

Software Measurement and Defect Prediction with Depress Extensible Framework

Published Online: Dec 20, 2014

Page range: 249 - 270

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fcds-2014-0014

Keywords
mining in software repositories, software metrics, KNIME, defect prediction

© by Lech Madeyski

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Software Measurement and Defect Prediction with Depress Extensible Framework

Published Online: Dec 20, 2014

Page range: 249 - 270

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fcds-2014-0014

Keywordsmining in software repositories, software metrics, KNIME, defect prediction

© by Lech Madeyski

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
mining in software repositories, software metrics, KNIME, defect prediction