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Tree-based classification models for analyzing a very large software system

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1996
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Software systems that control military radar systems must be highly reliable. A fault can compromise safety and security, and even cause death of military personnel. In this experiment we identify fault-prone software modules in a subsystem of a military radar system called the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, JSTARS. An earlier version was used in Operation Desert Storm to monitor ground movement. Product metrics were collected for different iterations of an operational prototype of the subsystem over a period of approximately three years. We used these metrics to train a decision tree model and to fit a discriminant model to classify each module as fault-prone or not fault-prone. The algorithm used to generate the decision tree model was TREEDISC, developed by the SAS Institute. The decision tree model is compared to the discriminant model.
Title: Tree-based classification models for analyzing a very large software system.
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Name(s): Bullard, Lofton A.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1996
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 70 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Software systems that control military radar systems must be highly reliable. A fault can compromise safety and security, and even cause death of military personnel. In this experiment we identify fault-prone software modules in a subsystem of a military radar system called the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, JSTARS. An earlier version was used in Operation Desert Storm to monitor ground movement. Product metrics were collected for different iterations of an operational prototype of the subsystem over a period of approximately three years. We used these metrics to train a decision tree model and to fit a discriminant model to classify each module as fault-prone or not fault-prone. The algorithm used to generate the decision tree model was TREEDISC, developed by the SAS Institute. The decision tree model is compared to the discriminant model.
Identifier: 15315 (digitool), FADT15315 (IID), fau:12085 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.
Subject(s): Computer software--Quality control
Computer software--Reliability
Software engineering
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