AutoODC: Automated Generation of Orthogonal Defect Classifications

LiGuo Huang, Vincent Ng, Isaac Persing, Ruili Geng, Xu Bai, and Jeff Tian.
Proceedings of the 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, pp. 412-415, 2011.

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Abstract

Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC), the most influential framework for software defect classification and analysis, provides valuable in-process feedback to system development and maintenance. Conducting ODC classification on existing organizational defect reports is human-intensive and rquires experts' knowledge of both ODC and system domains. This paper presents AutoODC, an approach and tool for automating ODC classification by casting it as a supervised text classification problem. Rather than merely applying the standard machine learning framework to this task, we seek to acquire a better ODC classification system by integrating experts' ODC experience and domain knoweldge into the learning process via proposing a novel Relevance Annotation Framework. We evalauted AutoODC on an industrial defect report from the social network domain. AutoODC is a promising approach: not only does it leverage minimal human effort beyong the human annotations typically required by standard machine learning approaches, but it achieves an overall accuracy of 80.2% when using manual classifications as a basis of comparison.

BibTeX entry

@InProceedings{Huang+etal:11a,
  author = {LiGuo Huang and Vincent Ng and Isaac Persing and Ruili Geng and Xu Bai and and Jeff Tian},
  title = {AutoODC: Automated Generation of Orthogonal Defect Classification},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering},
  pages = {412--415},
  year = 2011
}

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