Software analytics

Software analytics is to enable software practitioners to perform data exploration and analysis in order to obtain insightful and actionable information for data-driven tasks around software and services.

Insightful information is information that conveys meaningful and useful understanding or knowledge towards performing the target task. Typically insightful information is not easily attainable by directly investigating the raw data without aid of analytic technologies. Actionable information is information upon which software practitioners can come up with concrete solutions (better than existing solutions if any) towards completing the target task.

History

In May 2009, the Software Analytics Group at Microsoft Research Asia was founded and its manager is Dr. Dongmei Zhang.

See also

• Mining software repositories
• Software maintenance

References

• Dongmei Zhang, Yingnong Dang, Jian-Guang Lou, Shi Han, Haidong Zhang, and Tao Xie. "Software Analytics as a Learning Case in Practice: Approaches and Experiences". In Proceedings of International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Software Engineering

(MALETS 2011), Lawrence, Kansas, November 2011.

• Dongmei Zhang and Tao Xie. "Software Analytics in Practice: Mini Tutorial." In Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012), Software Engineering in Practice, Mini Tutorial, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2012.

External links

• Microsoft Research Asia Software Analytics Group
• Software Analytics in Practice – Approaches and Experiences, Keynote Slides by Dongmei Zhang at the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012)
• Slides of Software Analytics in Practice, mini-tutorial by Dongmei Zhang and Tao Xie at the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012)
• Software Analytics Portal