Software Aging Defect Prediction Using Novel Oversampling Technique in Cloud Oriented Softwares.

Authors: Kaur, Harguneet¹ (AUTHOR) harguneetkaur@ms.du.ac.in, Kaur, Arvinder² (AUTHOR) arvinder@ipu.ac.in

Source: International Journal of Reliability, Quality & Safety Engineering. Apr2026, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p1-32. 32p.

Subject Terms: *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Mathematical optimization, *Software reliability, Data augmentation, Classification algorithms, Cloud computing, Feature selection

DP-S3: software defect prediction through feature fusion with syntax trees, program slices and standard features.

Authors: Chen, Jinfu¹ (AUTHOR), Li, Zhehao² (AUTHOR), Xu, Jiaping² (AUTHOR), Cai, Saihua¹ (AUTHOR), Sun, Jian² (AUTHOR), Sosu, Rexford Nii Ayitey³ (AUTHOR), Chen, Jiming¹ (AUTHOR)

Source: Computer Journal. Mar2026, Vol. 69 Issue 3, p470-491. 22p.

Subject Terms: *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Software measurement, *Java programming language, *Long short-term memory, *Data analytics

DP‐GCN: Integrating GraphCodeBERT and GCN With Contrastive Learning for Software Defect Prediction.

Authors: Liu, Xueting¹ (AUTHOR) 2193745755@qq.com, Jin, Haibo¹ (AUTHOR)

Source: Journal of Software: Evolution & Process. Apr2026, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p1-17. 17p.

Subject Terms: *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Graph neural networks, *Machine learning, *Generalization

Bidirectional Program Dependency–Guided Attention for Improved Method‐Level Software Defect Prediction.

Authors: Lin, Jing‐Rong¹ (AUTHOR), Huang, Chin‐Yu^1,2 (AUTHOR) cyhuang@cs.nthu.edu.tw, Fang, Chih‐Chiang² (AUTHOR)

Source: Journal of Software: Evolution & Process. May2026, Vol. 38 Issue 5, p1-20. 20p.

Subject Terms: *Transformer models, *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Programming language semantics, *Software engineering

The Value of Imbalance Ensemble Techniques on Software Defect Prediction.

Authors: Altamimi, Ahmad M.¹ (AUTHOR) a_altamimi@psut.edu.jo, Azzeh, Mohammad² (AUTHOR) m.azzeh@psut.edu.jo, Sowan, Bilal³ (AUTHOR) bilal.sowan@uop.edu.jo

Source: Arabian Journal for Science & Engineering (Springer Science & Business Media B.V. ). Mar2026, Vol. 51 Issue 5, p6573-6597. 25p.

Subject Terms: *Ensemble learning, *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Resampling (Statistics), *Bootstrap aggregation (Algorithms), *Machine learning

Refined Program Slicing Based on Online Redundancy Removal.

Authors: Chang, Jianming¹ (AUTHOR) jianmingchang@seu.edu.cn, Wang, Lulu¹ (AUTHOR) wanglulu@seu.edu.cn, Liao, Li¹ (AUTHOR) lliao@seu.edu.cn, Zhou, Ying¹ (AUTHOR) zy@seu.edu.cn

Source: International Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering. Nov2026, Vol. 36 Issue 14, p2021-2068. 48p.

Subject Terms: *Defect tracking (Computer software development), Debugging

Enhance Expert‐Semantic Feature Extraction and Combine Feature Importance and Attention Scores for Just‐in‐Time Defect Prediction and Localization.

Authors: Zhao, Yu¹ (AUTHOR), Yuan, Xinyu¹ (AUTHOR), Gong, Lina¹ (AUTHOR) gonglina@nuaa.edu.cn, Huang, Zhiqiu¹ (AUTHOR) zqhuang@nuaa.edu.cn

Source: Journal of Software: Evolution & Process. May2026, Vol. 38 Issue 5, p1-19. 19p.

Subject Terms: *Feature extraction, *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Artificial neural networks

SAF-YOLO: a Semantic-Aware Lightweight Framework for Fine-Grained PCB Defect Detection.

Authors: Du, Xianjun^1,2 (AUTHOR) xdu@lut.edu.cn, Wang, Jingxiang¹ (AUTHOR)

Source: Journal of Electronic Testing. Apr2026, Vol. 42 Issue 2, p273-286. 14p.

Subject Terms: *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Object recognition (Computer vision), *Software frameworks, *Inspection & review

Advancing software fault detection: A comparative study of neural network architectures.

Authors: Gunda, Sai Krishna¹ (AUTHOR) gundasaikrishna26@gmail.com

Source: AIP Conference Proceedings. 2026, Vol. 3345 Issue 1, p1-13. 13p.

Subject Terms: *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Receiver operating characteristic curves, *Generalization, *Neural computers, *Computational complexity

Defect Prediction Tool for Object-Oriented Software.

Alternate Title: أداة تنبؤ بالعيوب للبرامج كائنية التوجه.

Authors: Alsarraj, Rasha Gh.¹ rasha.alsarraj@uomosul.edu.iq

Source: Iraqi Journal of Science. 2025, Vol. 69 Issue 10, p4490-4501. 12p.

Subject Terms: *Computer software quality control, *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Quality assurance, *Object-oriented programming, *Software measurement

Artificial Intelligence as a Co-Creator in Software Development.

Authors: ARSENE, Sabin-Marian¹ arsenesabin21@stud.ase.ro

Source: Informatica Economica. Jun2026, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p60-70. 11p.

Subject Terms: *Artificial intelligence, *Computer software development, *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Computer programmers, *Software engineering, Language models, Prediction models

PSCSelector: Appropriate Program Slicing Criteria Selection Based on Parameter‐Efficient Lightweight LLM.

Authors: Chang, Jianming¹ (AUTHOR), Wang, Lulu¹ (AUTHOR) wanglulu@seu.edu.cn, Zhang, Zaixing¹ (AUTHOR), Han, Mei¹ (AUTHOR), Ren, Jiahao¹ (AUTHOR), Li, Bixin¹ (AUTHOR)

Source: Journal of Software: Evolution & Process. Mar2026, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p1-15. 15p.

Subject Terms: *Software engineering, *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Language models, *Modeling languages (Computer science), *Deep learning

CAG-Net: A Novel Change Attention Guided Network for Substation Defect Detection.

Authors: Xiang, Dao¹ (AUTHOR), Du, Xiaofei² (AUTHOR), Liu, Zhaoyang¹ (AUTHOR) zy.liu@cumt.edu.cn

Source: Mathematics (2227-7390). Jan2026, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p178. 19p.

Subject Terms: *Detection algorithms, *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Artificial neural networks

Issue classification with LLMs: An empirical study of the NASA flight software systems.

Authors: Colavito, Giuseppe¹ (AUTHOR) giuseppe.colavito@uniba.it, Lanubile, Filippo¹ (AUTHOR) filippo.lanubile@uniba.it, Novielli, Nicole¹ (AUTHOR) nicole.novielli@uniba.it, Arreza, Christopher² (AUTHOR) chris.arreza@nasa.gov, Shi, Ying² (AUTHOR) ying.shi@nasa.gov

Source: Journal of Systems & Software. Jul2026, Vol. 237, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p.

Subject Terms: *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Generative artificial intelligence, *Systems software, Language models, Machine learning

Company/Entity: United States. National Aeronautics & Space Administration

Deep multi-metrics learning for mobile app defect prediction using code and process metrics.

Authors: Abdu, Ahmed¹ (AUTHOR), Abdo, Hakim A.² (AUTHOR), Ullah, Inam³ (AUTHOR), Khan, Jawad⁴ (AUTHOR), Gu, Yeong Hyeon⁵ (AUTHOR) yhgu@sejong.ac.kr, Algabri, Redhwan⁶ (AUTHOR) redhwan@sejong.ac.kr

Source: Scientific Reports. 11/4/2025, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p1-21. 21p.

Subject Terms: *Mobile apps, *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Software measurement, *Deep learning, *Model validation, *Convolutional neural networks

Reviews & Products: Android (Operating system)

A STUDY OF ENSEMBLE MODELS FOR DEFECT PREDICTION FROM CLASS DIAGRAM.

Authors: BATTULGA, Batnyam, TSOODOL, Lkhamrolom, ERDENEBAATAR, Bilguun, ERDENEBAATAR, Tsetsegjargal, NAMSRAI, Oyun-Erdene, BOLD, Naranchimeg

Source: Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Jun2026, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p91-99, 9p

Subject Terms: Ensemble learning, Unified modeling language, Computer software development, Defect tracking (Computer software development), Machine learning

Line-level defect prediction based on preceding line-aware and inter-line semantics enhancement.

Authors: Zhu, Xiaoke¹ (AUTHOR) xkzhu@henu.edu.cn, Zhang, Tao¹ (AUTHOR) taoz@henu.edu.cn, Chen, Xiaopan¹ (AUTHOR) xpchen@henu.edu.cn, Li, Zhiqiang² (AUTHOR) lizq@snnu.edu.cn, Jing, Xiao-Yuan³ (AUTHOR) Jingxy_2000@126.com

Source: Information & Software Technology. Mar2026, Vol. 191, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p.

Subject Terms: *Software engineering, *Defect tracking (Computer software development), Machine learning, Contextual analysis

SEDMR: A spreadsheet error detection approach based on metamorphic testing.

Authors: Yang, Bo¹ (AUTHOR) yangbo@bjfu.edu.cn, Hu, Xuelian¹ (AUTHOR) 3205273851@qq.com, Ma, Jiatong¹ (AUTHOR) JiaTongMa@bjfu.edu.cn

Source: Information & Software Technology. Jun2026, Vol. 194, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p.

Subject Terms: *Defect tracking (Computer software development), Computer software testing

Reviews & Products: Microsoft Excel (Computer software)

An explainable AI framework for enhanced software defect prediction using transformer-assisted boosting.

Authors: Kun, Qi, Shaikh, Zaffar Ahmed, Yang, Jing, Kumar, Gyanendra, Mohammed, Heba Abdelgader, Yee, Por Lip

Source: Scientific Reports; 6/4/2026, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p1-17, 17p

Subject Terms: Transformer models, Boosting algorithms, Shapley Additive Explanations, Artificial intelligence, Defect tracking (Computer software development), Software measurement, Machine learning

Prioritization Method for Crowdsourced Test Report by Integrating Text and Image Information.

Authors: Tu, Huijie¹ (AUTHOR), Yao, Xiangjuan¹ (AUTHOR) yaoxj@cumt.edu.cn, Gong, Dunwei² (AUTHOR), Yang, Yan¹ (AUTHOR)

Source: Journal of Software: Evolution & Process. Sep2025, Vol. 37 Issue 9, p1-15. 15p.

Subject Terms: *Crowdsourcing, *Defect tracking (Computer software development), *Data analysis