Yazılım Sürdürülebilirlik Tahmininde Güvenlik Açığı Yazılım Metriklerinin Rolü

Abstract

Software maintainability is among the basic quality features of software engineering. Vulnerability prediction is crucial to protect software maintainability from attacks for cybersecurity. Hence, managing vulnerability in an accurate way is an important phase for the efficient prediction of software maintenance. The existing technologies have achieved many good results in vulnerability detection, but no significant results have been obtained on how effective vulnerability metrics for software maintainability prediction is. As far as we know, this paper is the first study that applies the Deep Learning-based Symbiotic Immune Network Model to develop a software maintainability prediction model using vulnerability software metrics. This study proposes a novel methodology capable of discovering software maintainability metrics in open-source software programs efficiently and accurately. The current study also tries to identify vulnerability metrics frequently utilized in software maintainability. In this paper, five commonly employed open-source projects subjected to attacks, such as Mozilla, Linux Kernel, Xen Hypervisor, glibc, and httpd, are used. In the scope of this research, mentioned five open-source software projects were used as datasets, and they were analyzed with their effect on software maintainability prediction. The analysis of the software metrics was performed, and the descriptive statistics of the software metrics were presented. The current research obtained results of software metrics that accurately predicting software maintenance. Furthermore, the experimental findings confirm the effectiveness of the obtained vulnerability metrics for predicting software maintainability. Our experimental results claim that the proposed Deep Learning-based Symbiotic Immune Network Model enables the prediction of software maintainability to be substantially more effective.