Evolutionary Decision Trees and Software Metrics for Module Defects Identification

Software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specification. The aim of this paper is to present an application of evolutionary decision trees in software engineering in order to classify the software modules that have or have not one or more reported defects. For this some metrics are used for detecting the class of modules with defects or without defects.

Authors:

• Monica Chiş

Keywords:

• Evolutionary decision trees
• decision trees
• softwaremetrics.

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