Cost of misclassification in software quality models

Reliability has become a very important and competitive factor for software products. Using software quality models based on software measurements provides a systematic and scientific way to detect software faults early and to improve software reliability. This thesis considers several classification techniques including Generalized Classification Rule, MetaCost algorithm, Cost-Boosting algorithm and AdaCost algorithm. We also introduce the weighted logistic regression algorithm, and a new method to evaluate the performance of classification models---ROC Analysis. We focus our experiments on a very large legacy telecommunications system (LLTS) to build software quality models with principal components analysis. Two other data sets, CCCS and LTS are also used in our experiments.