Journal
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
Volume 122, Issue -, Pages 27-42Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2018.12.033
Keywords
Software fault prediction; Feature selection; Layered recurrent neural network
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Software fault prediction (SFP) is typically used to predict faults in software components. Machine learning techniques (e.g., classification) are widely used to tackle this problem. With the availability of the huge amount of data that can be obtained from mining software historical repositories, it becomes possible to have some features (metrics) that are not correlated with the faults, which consequently mislead the learning algorithm and thus decrease its performance. One possible solution to eliminate those metrics is Feature Selection (FS). In this paper, a novel FS approach is proposed to enhance the performance of a layered recurrent neural network (L-RNN), which is used as a classification technique for the SFP problem. Three different wrapper FS algorithms (i.e, Binary Genetic Algorithm (BGA), Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO), and Binary Ant Colony Optimization (BACO)) were employed iteratively. To assess the performance of the proposed approach, 19 real-world software projects from PROMISE repository are investigated and the experimental results are discussed. Receiver operating characteristic- area under the curve (ROC-AUC) is used as a performance measure. The results are compared with other state of -art approaches including Naive Bayes (NB), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), logistic regression (LR), the k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) and C4.5 decision trees, in terms of area under the curve (AUC). Our results have demonstrated that the proposed approach can outperform other existing methods. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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