Mining for Software Reliability, ICDM'07, Omaha, NE
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Software reliability is a critical issue: Software is never bug-free, and software bugs keep incurring monetary loss or even catastrophes. In the pursuit of better reliability, software engineering researchers found that huge amount of data in various forms can be collected from software systems, and these data, when properly analyzed, can help improve software reliability.
The tutorial presents a comprehensive overview of this area, examines representative studies, and lays out challenges to data mining researchers. Especially, specific effort is made to let data mining researchers appreciate the challenges and impact posed by software reliability, and be stimulated to contribute.