A Systematic Review of Software Fault Prediction Studies and Related Techniques

Abstract

This paper provides a systematic review of studies related to software fault prediction with a specific focus on types of metrics. The research questions on this paper are: what types of metrics are used for studies related to faults, and is there trend in proposal of fault-related metrics. The review uses 63 papers in 2 journals and 5 conference proceedings published in 2000–2010. According to the review results, we found that coderelated and process-related historical metrics had been used mainly since 2005, and organization-related and geographic metrics had been used since 2008.