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Extracting rules for vulnerabilities detection with static metrics using machine learning

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  • Aakanshi Gupta

    (GGS Indraprastha University)

  • Bharti Suri

    (GGS Indraprastha University)

  • Vijay Kumar

    (Amity University Uttar Pradesh)

  • Pragyashree Jain

    (Amity School of Engineering and Technology)

Abstract

Software quality is the prime solicitude in software engineering and vulnerability is one of the major threat in this respect. Vulnerability hampers the security of the software and also impairs the quality of the software. In this paper, we have conducted experimental research on evaluating the utility of machine learning algorithms to detect the vulnerabilities. To execute this experiment; a set of software metrics was extracted using machine learning in the form of easily accessible laws. Here, 32 supervised machine learning algorithms have been considered for 3 most occurred vulnerabilities namely: Lawofdemeter, BeanMemberShouldSerialize,and LocalVariablecouldBeFinal in a software system. Using the J48 machine learning algorithm in this research, up to 96% of accurate result in vulnerability detection was achieved. The results are validated against tenfold cross validation and also, the statistical parameters like ROC curve, Kappa statistics; Recall, Precision, etc. have been used for analyzing the result.

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  • Aakanshi Gupta & Bharti Suri & Vijay Kumar & Pragyashree Jain, 2021. "Extracting rules for vulnerabilities detection with static metrics using machine learning," International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer;The Society for Reliability, Engineering Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM),India, and Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, vol. 12(1), pages 65-76, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ijsaem:v:12:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1007_s13198-020-01036-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s13198-020-01036-0
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