Comparative Study of Fault-Proneness Filtering with PMD

Fault-prone module detection is important for assurance of software quality. We have proposed a novel approach for detecting fault-prone modules using spam filtering technique, named Fault-proneness filtering. In order to show the effectiveness of fault-proneness filtering, we conducted comparative study with a static code analysis tool, PMD. In the study, Fault-proneness filtering obtains higher F₁ than PMD.