Predicting build failures using social network analysis on developer communication

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-11

  Wolf, Timo ^a   Schröter, Adrian ^b   Damian, Daniela ^b   Nguyen, Thanh ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; CRITICAL FACTORS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PROJECT TEAM; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TEAM COMMUNICATION; WORKGROUPS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450244166     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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