On the Use of Process Trails to Understand Software Development

Author

Cerulo, Luigi

Author_Institution

Res. Centre on Software Technol., Sannio Univ., Benevento

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

303

Lastpage

304

Abstract

Software repositories, such as version control systems (CVS) and bug-tracking systems (Bugzilla), provide useful information about software process trails left by developers during the evolution of a software project. Mining these repositories provides a way to understand software development, to support predictions about software development, and to plan various aspects of software projects. We introduce three cases in the areas of impact analysis, change request assignment, and crosscutting concern mining, that takes benefit from historical information and show that the combination of different type of analyses can improve the performance of these software engineering models

Keywords

configuration management; data mining; program debugging; program diagnostics; software process improvement; Bugzilla; bug-tracking systems; change request assignment; crosscutting concern mining; impact analysis; process trails; software development; software engineering model; software repository; version control systems; Control systems; Documentation; Information analysis; Information resources; Performance analysis; Programming; Software engineering; Software performance; Software systems; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 2006. WCRE '06. 13th Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Benevento

ISSN

1095-1350

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2719-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2006.40

Filename

4024004