Abstract:
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for the "bucketing" or categorizing of software failures occurring during software test, and/or during other procedures. Software failure information is received. The software failure information is parsed to generate a raw matrix of software terms, software failures, and an indication of a number of times each software term was found in each software failure. An importance is determined of each software term of the raw matrix with respect to the software failures of the raw matrix to generate a weighted matrix. A failure space is generated based on the determined importance that indicates each software term-software failure pair of the matrix as a vector. A set of clusters representing the vectors in the failure space is determined. Software failures may be automatically assigned to clusters of the set to be "bucketed" or categorized for ease of subsequent analysis.
Abstract:
An automated method of making a prediction regarding development of a software product includes receiving code changes information, build information, and failure information related to the software product. Entries are stored in a database, wherein each entry links a subset of the code changes information with a subset of the build information and with a subset of the failure information. A first matrix and a second matrix are generated using the entries in the database. Multi-target entropy calculations are performed based on the first matrix and the second matrix. The prediction regarding the development of the software product is performed based on the multi-target entropy calculations.