On 11/14/2012 07:06 PM, Jim Laurino wrote: > Hello, > > I attended a talk [1] by Elaine Weyuker [2] on Wed, 7 Nov 2012. > > The talk, “Looking for Bugs In All the RIGHT Places”, discussed her work > on predicting where bugs would be found in the next release of a program > product. > > She and her collaborators have created a well validated tool that > predicts, in under a minute, the 20% of the source files of the product, > frozen before the next release, that will contain about 80% of the > faults that will be corrected in that release. > > The tool is not a silver bullet, but it is useful; especially because it > sometimes points attention to files that were not expected to have a lot > of problems. > > The tool has two parts, a prediction front end and a back end interface > to the revision control system and bug tracker. As I remember it, the > entire system consisted of under 800 lines of python and under 3000 > lines of C++. Using it would require adding a new back end. > > I thought that this tool might be useful in mediawiki development. She > was amenable to helping get it working if there was interest. > > [1]http://www.ece.udel.edu/spotlight/WeyukerDLS.php > > [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Weyuker
Thanks for the heads-up, Jim. I second Mark Holmquist's question -- can you point us to the code for the tool so we can start playing around with it? Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
