Automatically Learning Semantic Features for Defect Prediction

• Published in: Proceedings / International Conference on Software Engineering pp. 297 - 308
• Main Authors: Song Wang, Taiyue Liu, Lin Tan
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: ACM 14.05.2016
• Subjects: Buildings; Data models; deep learning; defect prediction; Feature extraction; feature generation; Predictive models; Semantics; Syntactics; Training

Software defect prediction, which predicts defective code regions, can help developers find bugs and prioritize their testing efforts. To build accurate prediction models, previous studies focus on manually designing features that encode the characteristics of programs and exploring different machin...