Exploring Industrial Data Repositories: Where Software Development Approaches Meet
Parastoo Mohagheghi, Reidar Conradi · 2004
Lots of data are gathered during the lifetime of a product or project in different data repositories that may be part of a measurement program or not. Analyzing this data is useful in exploring relations, verifying hypotheses or theories, and in evaluating and improving companies ’ data collection systems. The paper presents a method for exploring industrial data repositories in empirical research and describes experiences from three cases of exploring data repositories of a large-scale telecom system: A study of defect reports, a study of change requests, and a study of effort. The system in study is developed incrementally, software is reused in a product line approach, and the architecture is component-based. One main challenge is the integration of the results of studies with one another and with theory. We