Roundtable: What´s Next in Software Analytics

Author

Hassan, Ahmed E. ; Hindle, Adrian ; Runeson, P. ; Shepperd, Martin ; Devanbu, Premkumar ; Sunghun Kim

Author_Institution

Queen´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada

Volume

30

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

July-Aug. 2013

Firstpage

53

Lastpage

56

Abstract

For this special issue, the guest editors asked a panel of six established experts in software analytics to highlight what they thought were the most important, or overlooked, aspect of this field. They all pleaded for a much broader view of analytics than seen in current practice: software analytics should go beyond developers (Ahmed Hassan) and numbers (Per Runeson). Analytics should also prove its relevance to practitioners (Abram Hindle, Martin Shepperd). There are now opportunities for "natural" software analytics based on statistical natural language processing (Prem Devanbu). Lastly, software analytics needs information analysts and field agents like Chloe O\´Brian and Jack Bauer in the TV show 24 (Sung Kim).

Keywords

natural language processing; software engineering; statistical analysis; natural software analytics; statistical natural language processing; Analytical models; Data mining; Natural language processing; Software development; Software engineering; decision support; information search and retrieval; management; metrics; software/program verification; statistical methods; testing and debugging;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2013.85

Filename

6547637