software mining

Change Bursts as Defect Predictors – ISSRE 2010

by kim August 3, 2010

In software development, every change induces a risk. What happens if code changes again and again in some period of time? In an empirical study on Windows Vista, we found that the features of such change bursts have the highest predictive power for defect-prone components. With precision and recall values well above 90%, change bursts [...]

Seminar: MSA 2010

by kim April 12, 2010

Software archives mining deals with the automated extraction, collection, and abstraction of data from the information generated during the software development process (e.g. source code archives, bug tracking systems, etc.). This seminar (7 CP) introduces the notion of software archives and teaches recent software archives mining techniques. More details here