Mining Software Engineering Data

Software engineering data (such as code bases, execution traces, historical code changes, mailing lists, and bug databases) contains a wealth of information about a project's status, progress, and evolution. Using well-established data mining techniques, practitioners and researchers have started exploring the potential of this valuable data in order to better manage their projects and to produce higher quality software systems that are delivered on time and within budget. This tutorial presents the latest research in mining software engineering data, discusses challenges associated with mining software engineering data, highlights success stories of mining software engineering data, and outlines future research directions. Attendees will acquire the knowledge and skills needed to integrate the mining of software engineering data in their own research or practice. This tutorial builds on several successful offerings at ICSE since 2007.