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Mining developer communication data streams
This paper explores the concepts of modelling a software development project
as a process that results in the creation of a continuous stream of data. In
terms of the Jazz repository used in this research, one aspect of that stream
of data would be developer communication. Such data can be used to create an
evolving social network characterized by a range of metrics. This paper
presents the application of data stream mining techniques to identify the most
useful metrics for predicting build outcomes. Results are presented from
applying the Hoeffding Tree classification method used in conjunction with the
Adaptive Sliding Window (ADWIN) method for detecting concept drift. The results
indicate that only a small number of the available metrics considered have any
significance for predicting the outcome of a build
A research review of quality assessment for software
Measures were recommended to assess the quality of software submitted to the AdaNet program. The quality factors that are important to software reuse are explored and methods of evaluating those factors are discussed. Quality factors important to software reuse are: correctness, reliability, verifiability, understandability, modifiability, and certifiability. Certifiability is included because the documentation of many factors about a software component such as its efficiency, portability, and development history, constitute a class for factors important to some users, not important at all to other, and impossible for AdaNet to distinguish between a priori. The quality factors may be assessed in different ways. There are a few quantitative measures which have been shown to indicate software quality. However, it is believed that there exists many factors that indicate quality and have not been empirically validated due to their subjective nature. These subjective factors are characterized by the way in which they support the software engineering principles of abstraction, information hiding, modularity, localization, confirmability, uniformity, and completeness
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