We analyze the Eclipse defect data from June 2004 to November 2007, and find that the growth of the number of defects can be well modeled by polynomial functions. Furthermore, we can predict the number of future Eclipse defects based on the nature of ...

Temporal segmentation partitions time series data with the intent of producing more homogeneous segments. It is a technique used to preprocess data so that subsequent time series analysis on individual segments can detect trends that may not be evident ...

Apart from source code, software infrastructures supporting agile and distributed software projects contain traces of developer activity that does not directly affect the product itself but is important for the development process. We propose a model ...

Source code repositories managed by the popular CVS are frequently mined by researchers to validate various hypotheses about how the development of a software product progressed. This paper presents a study where the development process of 17 student ...

Developers in Open Source Software (OSS) projects communicate using mailing lists. By convention, the mailing lists used only for task-related discussions, so they are primarily concerned with the software under development, and software process issues (...

Fault-prone module detection in source code is important for assurance of software quality. Most previous fault-prone detection approaches have been based on software metrics. Such approaches, however, have difficulties in collecting the metrics and in ...

In the software development process, scheduling and predictability are important components to delivering a product on time and within budget. Effort estimation artifacts offer a rich data set for improving scheduling accuracy and for understanding the ...

Today, many electronic systems are developed using a hardware description language, a kind of software that can be converted into integrated circuits or programmable logic devices. Like traditional software projects, hardware projects have bugs, and ...

In software engineering experiments, the description of bug reports is typically treated as natural language text, although it often contains stack traces, source code, and patches. Neglecting such structural elements is a loss of valuable information; ...