The significant momentum and importance of Mining Software Repositories (MSR) in
Software Engineering (SE) has fostered new opportunities and challenges for extensive …

A software repository contains a historical and valuable wealth of information about overall
development of software system (project's status, progress, and evolution). Mining software …

Mining software repositories is a growing research field where rich data available in the
different development software repositories, are analyzed and cross-linked to uncover useful …

Context Software development projects involve the use of a wide range of tools to produce a
software artifact. Software repositories such as source control systems have become a focus …

Context Although many papers have been published on software defect prediction
techniques, machine learning approaches have yet to be fully explored. Objective In this …

Process mining is a field that uses elements from data mining and business process
modeling to do tasks such as process discovery, conformance checking, and process …

Inspections are a proven approach for improving software requirements quality. Owing to the
fact that inspectors report both faults and non-faults (ie, false-positives) in their inspection …

Fuzzy logic is an organized and mathematical method of handling inherently imprecise
concepts through the use of membership functions, which allows membership with a certain …

Software production is a complex process. Accurate estimation of the effort required to build
the product, regardless of its type and applied methodology, is one of the key problems in …

It was proven that the cost of fixing errors escalates as a project moves through its life cycle
in an exponential fashion. Identifying buggy classes, as soon as they are committed to the …