Mining Repositories to Assist in Project Planning and Resource Allocation

摘要

Software repositories plus defect logs are useful for learning defect detectors. Such defect detectors could be a useful resource allocation tool for software managers. One way to view our detectors is that they are a V&V tool for V&V; i.e. they can be used to assess if "too much" of the testing budget is going to "too little" of the system. Finding such detectors could become the business case that constructing a local repository is useful. Three counter arguments to such a proposal are (1) no general conclusions have been reported in any such repository despite years of effort; (2) if such general conclusions existed then there would be no need to build a local repository; (3) no such general conclusions will ever exist, according to many researchers. This article is a reply to these three arguments. To appear in the International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (co-located with ICSE 2004) May 2004; http://msr.uwaterloo.ca.