Title :
Rapid Releases and Patch Backouts: A Software Analytics Approach
Author :
Souza, Rodrigo ; Chavez, Christina ; Bittencourt, Roberto A.
Author_Institution :
Fed. Univ. of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
Abstract :
Release engineering deals with decisions that impact the daily lives of developers, testers, and users and thus contribute to a product´s success. Although gut feeling is important in such decisions, it´s increasingly important to leverage existing data, such as bug reports, source code changes, code reviews, and test results, both to support decisions and to help evaluate current practices. The exploration of software engineering data to obtain insightful information is called software analytics.
Keywords :
data analysis; software engineering; Mozilla; patch backouts; rapid releases; software analytics approach; software engineering data; Browsers; Computer bugs; Continuous production; Linux; Market research; Marketing and sales; Software analytics; Software development; Software engineering; Firefox; Mozilla; Web browsers; bug reopening; rapid releases; release engineering; software analytics; software development; software engineering;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
