Poster: Identification of Methods with Low Fault Risk

05/03/2018

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by   Rainer Niedermayr, et al.

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Test resources are usually limited and therefore it is often not possible to completely test an application before a release. Therefore, testers need to focus their activities on the relevant code regions. In this paper, we introduce an inverse defect prediction approach to identify methods that contain hardly any faults. We applied our approach to six Java open-source projects and show that on average 31.6 fault risk; they contain in total, on average, only 5.8 Furthermore, the results suggest that, unlike defect prediction, our approach can also be applied in cross-project prediction scenarios. Therefore, inverse defect prediction can help prioritize untested code areas and guide testers to increase the fault detection probability.