The ultimate Debian database: Consolidating bazaar metadata for quality assurance and data mining

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 52-61

  Nussbaum, Lucas ^a   Zacchiroli, Stefano ^b  

^a LORIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Data mining; Data warehouse; Distribution; Open source; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURES; DATA SOURCE; DEVELOPMENT MODEL; DISTRIBUTION; FLOSS PROJECTS; NEW SERVICES; OPEN SOURCE; OPEN SOURCES; REFACTORINGS; SQL DATABASE; SQL QUERY; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

COMPUTER CRIME; DATA MINING; DATA WAREHOUSES; FLOW PATTERNS; METADATA; PERSONAL COMPUTING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77953804702     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2010.5463277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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