Rapid Releases and Patch Backouts: A Software Analytics Approach
Rodrigo Fernandes de Souza, Christina Chávez, Roberto A. Bittencourt · IEEE Software · 2015
Release engineering deals with decisions that impact the daily lives of developers, testers, and users and thus contribute to a product's success. Although gut feeling is important in such decisions, it's increasingly important to leverage existing data, such as bug reports, source code changes, code reviews, and test results, both to support decisions and to help evaluate current practices. The exploration of software engineering data to obtain insightful information is called software analytics.