Research Article
Using Software Dependency to Bug Prediction
Table 3
Bug proneness: the correlation coefficient with eight network metrics.
| | | Bug proneness (Sig. ) | | BC | CC | D | EC | inD | outD | PR | HITS |
| | Pearson-TSN | −0.804 | — | −0.903 | −0.852 | −0.852 | −0.752 | −0.728 | −0.933 | | Kendall-TSN | −0.764 | — | −0.899 | −0.689 | −0.689 | −0.552 | — | −0.733 | | Spearman-TSN | −0.888 | — | −0.967 | −0.879 | −0.879 | −0.656 | — | −0.903 |
| | Pearson-ASN | −0.891 | — | −0.895 | — | — | −0.915 | — | — | | Kendall-ASN | −0.782 | — | −0.807 | — | — | −0.844 | — | — | | Spearman-ASN | −0.909 | — | −0.916 | — | — | −0.952 | — | — |
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The bold value refers to the maximum correlation coefficient of different analysis methods per project by comparing the eight metrics.
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