Software analytics: So what?

IEEE Software

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 31-37

  Menzies, Tim ^a   Zimmermann, Thomas ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

analysis; big data; measurement; metrics; software analytics

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; BIG DATUM; EXPLOSIVE GROWTH; MENZIES; METRICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MEASUREMENTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84880047928     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2013.86     Document Type: Article

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