comprehensive comparative study of multiple classification techniques for software quality estimation

Reliability and quality are desired features in industrial software applications. In some cases, they are absolutely essential. When faced with limited resources, software project managers will need to allocate such resources to the most fault prone areas. The ability to accurately classify a software module as fault-prone or not fault-prone enables the manager to make an informed resource allocation decision. An accurate quality classification avoids wasting resources on modules that are not fault-prone. It also avoids missing the opportunity to correct faults relatively early in the development cycle, when they are less costly. This thesis seeks to introduce the classification algorithms (classifiers) that are implemented in the WEKA software tool. WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) was developed at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. An empirical investigation is performed using a case study at a real-world system.