Automatic source-code inspection tools help to assess, monitor and improve code quality.
Since these tools only examine the software project's codebase, they overlook other …

As the primary cause of software defects, human error is the key to understanding, detecting
and preventing software defects. This chapter first reviews the state of art of an emerging …

Static code analysis tools (code checkers) scan source programs and issue warnings to
potentially-problematic parts. Programmers can utilize a code checker whenever they …

Static analysis tools are widely used in software development. While research has focused
on improving tool accuracy, evidence at Microsoft suggests that developers often consider …

Regression bugs are a type of bugs that cause a feature of software that worked correctly but
stop working after a certain software commit. This paper presents a systematic study of …

This paper proposes an application of the survival analysis to bug-fix events occurred in
source files. When a source file is modified, it has a risk of creating a bug (fault). In this …

Existing software fault-proneness analysis and prediction models can be categorized into
software metrics and visualized approaches. However, the studies of the software metrics …

Software requirement specifications have been observed to largely impact the dependability
and the cost of software systems in software development and certification phases …

Nowadays, Quality Assurance and debugging defective software is becoming gradually
costly and time-consuming. As a result, applying techniques such as fault-proneness …

This paper proposes an application of the survival analysis to bug-fix events occurred in
source files. When a source file is modified, it has a risk of creating a bug (fault). In this …