Predictive Models in Software Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities

Predictive models are one of the most important techniques that widely applied in many areas software engineering. There have been a large number primary studies apply predictive and present well-performed various research domains, including requirements, design development, testing debugging, maintenance. This article is first attempt to systematically organize knowledge this area by surveying body 421 papers on published between 2009 2020. We describe key approaches used, classify different models, summarize range application areas, analyze results. Based our findings, we also propose set current challenges still need be addressed future work provide proposed road map for these opportunities.