Semester
Summer
Date of Graduation
2010
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MS
College
Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
Department
Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Committee Chair
Tim Menzies.
Abstract
Software defect prediction poses many problems during classification. A common solution used to improve software defect prediction is to train on similar, or local, data to the testing data. Prior work [12, 64] shows that locality improves the performance of classifiers. This approach has been commonly applied to the field of software defect prediction. In this thesis, we compare the performance of many classifiers, both locality based and non-locality based. We propose a novel classifier called Clump, with the goals of improving classification while providing an explanation as to how the decisions were reached. We also explore the effects of standard clustering and relevancy filtering algorithms.;Through experimentation, we show that locality does not improve classification performance when applied to software defect prediction. The performance of the algorithms is impacted more by the datasets used than by the algorithmic choices made. More research is needed to explore locality based learning and the impact of the datasets chosen.
Recommended Citation
Lemon, Bryan, "The effect of locality based learning on software defect prediction" (2010). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 3018.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3018