Towards an ensemble based system for predicting the number of software faults

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Highlights：

• Paper presents ensemble based system for the prediction of number of software faults.

• System is based on the heterogeneous ensemble method.

• System uses three fault prediction techniques as base learners for the ensemble.

• Results are verified on Eclipse datasets.

摘要

•Paper presents ensemble based system for the prediction of number of software faults.•System is based on the heterogeneous ensemble method.•System uses three fault prediction techniques as base learners for the ensemble.•Results are verified on Eclipse datasets.

论文关键词：Software fault prediction techniques,Empirical study,Linear regression,Gradient boosting,Genetic programming,Promise repository

论文评审过程：Received 14 November 2016, Revised 4 April 2017, Accepted 5 April 2017, Available online 11 April 2017, Version of Record 20 April 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.04.014