A Novel PCA based Multilayer perceptron algorithm for Maintainability Prediction

A Novel PCA based Multi-layer perceptron algorithm for Maintainability Prediction

  IJETT-book-cover  International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT)          
  
© 2016 by IJETT Journal
Volume-37 Number-2
Year of Publication : 2016
Authors : Deeksha Datyal, Aman Kaushik, Abhishek Tomar
DOI :  10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V37P215

Citation 

Deeksha Datyal, Aman Kaushik, Abhishek Tomar"A Novel PCA based Multi-layer perceptron algorithm for Maintainability Prediction", International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), V37(2),90-96 July 2016. ISSN:2231-5381. www.ijettjournal.org. published by seventh sense research group

Abstract
Software Engineering has attracted the interest of the researchers all around the world in the recent years. Various software metrics becomes the index for measuring the quality of any software engineering. Software maintainability is one of the important metrics which needs to predict in advanced for better performance during the SDLC cycle. Various algorithms have been attempted in the past for the same and their performance has been measured. A classification algorithm such as KNN has been the one of the primary algorithms. This paper implements a novel PCA based Multi-layer perceptron algorithm for maintainability prediction. The maintainability is predicted and compared to that of the actual values and accuracy, precision and recall values are calculated. It is found that our algorithm performs quite well and gives encouraging results.

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Keywords
Software Maintainability, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), Software Development Life Cycle Model (SDLC).