Profiling Developers to Predict Vulnerable Code Changes
Software vulnerability prediction and management have caught the interest of researchers and practitioners, recently. Various techniques that are usually based on characteristics of the code artefacts are also offered to predict software vulnerabilities. While these studies achieve promising results, the main role played by human factors in inducing vulnerabilities has not yet been studied. We aim to profile the vulnerability inducing and vulnerability fixing behaviors of developers in software projects using Heterogeneous Information Network (HIN) analysis. We also investigate the impact of developer profiles in predicting vulnerability inducing commits, and compare the findings against the approach based on the code metrics. We adopt Random Walk with Restart (RWR) algorithm on HIN and the aggregation of code metrics for extracting all the input features. We utilize traditional machine learning algorithms namely, Naive Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF) and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) to build the prediction models.We report our empirical analysis to predict vulnerability inducing commits of four Apache projects. The technique based on code metrics achieves 90% success for the recall measure, whereas the technique based on profiling developer behavior achieves 71% success. When we use the feature sets obtained with the two techniques together, we achieve 89% success.
Fri 18 NovDisplayed time zone: Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi change
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11:20 20mResearch paper | Profiling Developers to Predict Vulnerable Code Changes PROMISE Tugce Coskun Istanbul Technical University, Rusen Halepmollasi Istanbul Technical University, Khadija Hanifi Ericsson, Ramin Fadaei Fouladi Ericsson, Pinar Comak De Cnudde Ericsson, Ayse Tosun Istanbul Technical University | ||
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