Dhaka University Journal of Applied Science & Engineering

• Md. Habibur Rahman
  Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka
• Sadia Sharmin
  Dept. of Computer Sci. and Eng., Islamic University of Technology
• Md. Shariful Islam
  Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka
• Shah Mostafa Khaled
  Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka
• Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar
  Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka

Software defect prediction is a key research area in the domain of software quality estimation. Usually, software attributes are used for building a defect prediction model and a specific prediction model can produce positive, negative, or neutral outcomes depending on the characteristics of these attributes. Therefore, choosing an optimal set of attributes for the development of a defect prediction model remains a vital yet relatively unexplored issue. To address this issue, we propose a technique for attribute selection to improve the accuracy of software defect prediction for both within project and cross-project. Experimental results using the data sets from Relink and NASA MDP repository demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm

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