COMBINING DIFFERENT CHANGE PREDICTION TECHNIQUES

Daniel Cabrero, Javier Garzás, Mario Piattini

2008

Abstract

This work contributes to software change prediction research and practice in three ways. Firstly, it reviews and classifies the different types of techniques used to predict change. Secondly, it provides a framework for testing those techniques in different contexts and for doing so automatically. This framework is used to find the best combination of techniques for a specific project (or group of projects) scenario. In third place, it provides a new prediction technique based on what the expectation of change is, from the user’s point of view. This new proposal is based on a gap found in the relevant research, during the course of a review of the relevant literature.

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in Harvard Style

Cabrero D., Garzás J. and Piattini M. (2008). COMBINING DIFFERENT CHANGE PREDICTION TECHNIQUES . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 57-63. DOI: 10.5220/0001675800570063


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Daniel Cabrero and Javier Garzás and Mario Piattini},
title={COMBINING DIFFERENT CHANGE PREDICTION TECHNIQUES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={57-63},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001675800570063},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,
TI - COMBINING DIFFERENT CHANGE PREDICTION TECHNIQUES
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Cabrero D.
AU - Garzás J.
AU - Piattini M.
PY - 2008
SP - 57
EP - 63
DO - 10.5220/0001675800570063