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BugzillaMetrics: an adaptable tool for evaluating metric specifications on change requests
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Ninth international workshop on Principles of software evolution: in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting table of contents
Dubrovnik, Croatia
SESSION: Metrics and models table of contents
Pages: 35 - 38  
Year of Publication: 2007
ISBN:978-1-59593-722-3
Authors
Lars Grammel  RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Holger Schackmann  RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Horst Lichter  RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Sponsors
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
CEPIS : The Council of European Professional Informatics Societies
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

To manage the evolution of software processes and products, it is essential to evaluate their current state and how it evolved. This information can be obtained by analyzing the data available in change request management (CRM) systems like Bugzilla.

Metrics and charts on change requests are already available in current CRM systems. They provide information about common metrics, but their adaptability is limited. This paper describes a more flexible approach for the evaluation of metrics on change requests.

The main characteristics of the tool presented in this paper are the separation between metric specification and data retrieval, an event driven algorithm that calculates time series data, and an abstraction of its data sources.


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Bugzilla 2.18.6. http://www.bugzilla.org.
 
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L. Grammel. Development of a tool for the evaluation of change requests. Diploma thesis, RWTH Aachen University, 2007.
 
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Lars Grammel: colleagues
Holger Schackmann: colleagues
Horst Lichter: colleagues