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Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for Bugs In All the RIGHT Places
From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah () wikimedia ! org>
Date: 2012-12-28 0:01:47
Message-ID: 50DCE16B.4070404 () wikimedia ! org
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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
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