A Comparative Study of Various Distance Measures for Software fault prediction
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International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) |  |
| © 2014 by IJCTT Journal | ||
| Volume-17 Number-3 |
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| Year of Publication : 2014 | ||
| Authors : Deepinder Kaur | ||
| DOI : 10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V17P122 |
Deepinder Kaur. "A Comparative Study of Various Distance Measures for Software fault prediction". International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) V17(3):117-120, Nov 2014. ISSN:2231-2803. www.ijcttjournal.org. Published by Seventh Sense Research Group.
Abstract -
Different distance measures have been used for efficiently predicting software faults at early stages of software development. One stereotyped approach for software fault prediction due to its computational efficiency is K-means clustering, which partitions the dataset into K number of clusters using any distance measure. Distance measures by using some metrics are used to extract similar data objects which help in developing efficient algorithms for clustering and classification. In this paper, we study K-means clustering with three different distance measures Euclidean, Sorensen and Canberra by using datasets that have been collected from NASA MDP (metrics data program) .Results are displayed with the help of ROC curve. The experimental results shows that K-means clustering with Sorensen distance is better than Euclidean distance and Canberra distance.
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Keywords
Distance measures; K-means clustering; Fault prediction; Euclidean distance; Sorensen distance; Canberra distance.