Can We Trust Software Repositories?
by
Andreas Zeller
Jürgen Münch, Klaus Schmid (Ed.), Perspectives on the Future of Software Engineering, Chapter 14, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, October 2013.
ISBN: 9783642373947
See also
More information is available at http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-37395-4_14.
Abstract
To acquire data for empirical studies, software engineering researchers frequently leverage software repositories as data sources. Indeed, version and bug databases contain a wealth of data on how a product came to be. To turn this data into knowledge, though, requires deep insights into the specific process and product; and it requires careful scrutiny of the techniques used to obtain the data. The central challenge of the future will thus be to combine both automatic and manual empirical analysis.
BibTeX Entry
@inbook{zeller-pfse-2013,
title = "Can We Trust Software Repositories?",
author = "Andreas Zeller",
year = "2013",
month = oct,
booktitle = "Perspectives on the Future of Software Engineering",
chapter = "14",
editors = "Jürgen Münch and Klaus Schmid",
publisher = "Springer Berlin Heidelberg",
ISBN = "9783642373947",
}