Empirical studies on software evolution: should we (try to) claim causation?
Massimiliano Di PentaPublished in: EVOL/IWPSE (2010)
Keyphrases
- empirical studies
- software evolution
- software systems
- software maintenance
- source code
- reverse engineering
- mining software repositories
- real world data sets
- open source projects
- software architecture
- empirical analysis
- linux kernel
- software engineering
- software development
- software development processes
- software repositories
- application server
- databases
- causal reasoning
- human behavior
- process automation
- component based software development
- uci datasets
- agile development
- experimental design
- knowledge management
- bayesian networks
- decision trees
- machine learning