Zhou Xu was an assistant professor in the School of Big Data and Software Engineering at Chongqing University, China, from 2020 to 2022. His research interests encompass software defect prediction, empirical software engineering, feature engineering, and data mining. He has published more than 50 papers in international journals and conferences, among them IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Journal of System and Software, ASE or ISSRE.
This book focuses on software defect prediction (SDP) in order to avoid threats related to quality, reliability and safety. It details advanced machine/deep learning technologies to discuss strategies for identifying and preventing such issues, and introduces innovative approaches to address feature irrelevance and redundancy, data imbalance in defect data, selection of representative module subsets for cross-version defect prediction, and managing data distribution variances in cross-project defect prediction.The book is organized...
