Investigating the effect of "defect co-fix" on quality assurance resource allocation: A search-based approach

Hadi Hemmati, Meiyappan Nagappan, Ahmed E. Hassan

Abstract: Highlights•Introducing the concept of “remaining defects” in QA resource prioritization.•Introducing “co-fix-awareness” to dynamically rank source code files.•Proposing two co-fix-aware ranking algorithms.•Empirically comparing several QA resource prioritization algorithms.•Investigating the applicability of search algorithms on QA resource prioritization.