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Towards benchmarking feature subset selection methods for software fault prediction
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Embedded Systems. Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan .ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0611-2655
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden; Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
2016 (English)In: Computational Intelligence and Quantitative Software Engineering / [ed] Witold Pedrycz, Giancarlo Succi and Alberto Sillitti, Springer-Verlag , 2016, p. 33-58Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Despite the general acceptance that software engineering datasets often contain noisy, irrele- vant or redundant variables, very few benchmark studies of feature subset selection (FSS) methods on real-life data from software projects have been conducted. This paper provides an empirical comparison of state-of-the-art FSS methods: information gain attribute ranking (IG); Relief (RLF); principal com- ponent analysis (PCA); correlation-based feature selection (CFS); consistency-based subset evaluation (CNS); wrapper subset evaluation (WRP); and an evolutionary computation method, genetic program- ming (GP), on five fault prediction datasets from the PROMISE data repository. For all the datasets, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve—the AUC value averaged over 10-fold cross- validation runs—was calculated for each FSS method-dataset combination before and after FSS. Two diverse learning algorithms, C4.5 and na ??ve Bayes (NB) are used to test the attribute sets given by each FSS method. The results show that although there are no statistically significant differences between the AUC values for the different FSS methods for both C4.5 and NB, a smaller set of FSS methods (IG, RLF, GP) consistently select fewer attributes without degrading classification accuracy. We conclude that in general, FSS is beneficial as it helps improve classification accuracy of NB and C4.5. There is no single best FSS method for all datasets but IG, RLF and GP consistently select fewer attributes without degrading classification accuracy within statistically significant boundaries.

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Springer-Verlag , 2016. p. 33-58
Series
Studies in Computational Intelligence, ISSN 1860-949X ; 617
Keywords [en]
software fault prediction, Feature subset selection, Empirical
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Computer Systems Software Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-28129DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25964-2_3Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84955278082ISBN: 978-3-319-25962-8 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-28129DiVA, id: diva2:818796
Available from: 2015-06-09 Created: 2015-06-08 Last updated: 2020-10-21Bibliographically approved

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