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Analytics for software development

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Raymond P.L. Buse,

Thomas ZimmermannAuthors Info & Claims

FoSER '10: Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research

Pages 77 - 80

https://doi.org/10.1145/1882362.1882379

Published: 07 November 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Despite large volumes of data and many types of metrics, software projects continue to be difficult to predict and risky to conduct. In this paper we propose software analytics which holds out the promise of helping the managers of software projects turn their plentiful information resources, produced readily by current tools, into insights they can act on. We discuss how analytics works, why it's a good fit for software engineering, and the research problems that must be overcome in order to realize its promise.

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Index Terms

Analytics for software development
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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FoSER '10: Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research

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ISBN:9781450304276

DOI:10.1145/1882362

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