Theoretical Background and State-of-the-Art

This chapter provides an overview of the background knowledge that is relevant to the main areas of application of this book. The areas of software engineering, software reuse, and software quality are discussed in the context of taking advantage of useful data in order to improve the software development process. Upon providing the relevant definitions and outlining the data and metrics provided as part of software development, we discuss how data mining techniques can be applied to software engineering data and illustrate the reuse potential that is provided in an integrated manner.

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