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Do I really need all this work to find vulnerabilities? An empirical case study comparing vulnerability detection techniques on a Java application
Sarah Elder, Nusrat Zahan, Rui Shu +4
CONTEXT: Applying vulnerability detection techniques is one of many tasks using the limited resources of a software project. OBJECTIVE: The goal of this research is to assist manag…
Negative Results for Software Effort Estimation
Tim Menzies, Ye Yang, George Mathew +2
Context:More than half the literature on software effort estimation (SEE) focuses on comparisons of new estimation methods. Surprisingly, there are no studies comparing state of th…
Tuning for Software Analytics: is it Really Necessary?
Wei Fu, Tim Menzies, Xipeng Shen
Context: Data miners have been widely used in software engineering to, say, generate defect predictors from static code measures. Such static code defect predictors perform well co…
Why is Differential Evolution Better than Grid Search for Tuning Defect Predictors?
Wei Fu, Vivek Nair, Tim Menzies
Context: One of the black arts of data mining is learning the magic parameters which control the learners. In software analytics, at least for defect prediction, several methods, l…