@proceedings {1515, title = {Using Citation Influence to Predict Software Defects}, year = {2013}, month = {05/2013}, abstract = {The software dependency network reflects structure and the developer contribution network reflects process. Previous studies have used social network properties over these networks to predict whether a software component is defect-prone. However, these studies do not consider the strengths of the dependencies in the networks. In our approach, we use a citation influence topic model to determine dependency strengths among components and developers, analyze weak and strong dependencies separately, and apply social network properties to predict defect-prone components. In experiments on Eclipse and NetBeans, our approach has higher accuracy than prior work.}, keywords = {eclipse, netbeans, social network}, author = {Wei Hu and Kenny Wong} }