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A Review of Software Defect Prediction Models

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Data Management, Analytics and Innovation

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This paper analyzes the performance of various software defects prediction techniques. Different datasets have been analyzed for finding defects in various researches. The main aim of this paper is to study many techniques used for predicting defects in software.

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Tanwar, H., Kakkar, M. (2019). A Review of Software Defect Prediction Models. In: Balas, V., Sharma, N., Chakrabarti, A. (eds) Data Management, Analytics and Innovation. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 808. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1402-5_7

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