Software Defect Prediction via Attention-Based Recurrent Neural Network

• Published in: Scientific programming Vol. 2019; no. 2019; pp. 1 - 14
• Main Authors: Yang, Kang, Yu, Huiqun, Diao, Xuyang, Fan, Guisheng, Chen, Liqiong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2019; Hindawi; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Classification; Data mining; Defects; Dictionaries; Identification methods; Machine learning; Mapping; Network reliability; Neural networks; Prediction models; Recurrent neural networks; Semantics; Software engineering; Software reliability; Source code

In order to improve software reliability, software defect prediction is applied to the process of software maintenance to identify potential bugs. Traditional methods of software defect prediction mainly focus on designing static code metrics, which are input into machine learning classifiers to pre...