publications:
- title: "BugzillaMetrics - Design of an adaptable tool for evaluating user-defined metric specifications on change requests"
  author:
  - name: "Lars Grammel"
    link: "http://larsgrammel.de"
  - name: "Holger Schackmann"
    link: "http://"
  - name: "Horst Lichter"
    link: "http://www-lufgi3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/lufgi/index.html"
  year: "2007"
  month: "November"
  abstract: "The  evaluation  of  metrics  on  the  data  available  in  change  request  management (CRM) systems can give valuable information for the management of software development. It can for example be helpful in assessing the current workload, product quality or development process weaknesses.  Metrics and charts on change requests are already available in current CRM systems.  They  provide  information  about  common  metrics,  but  their  adaptability  is limited  with  respect  to  the  specification  of  metrics  customized  to  organization-specific needs.   This  paper  describes  a  more  flexible  approach  for  the  evaluation  of  metrics  on change requests. The core part of the presented tool is an event driven evaluation algorithm for the calculation of time series data. It is parametrized with user defined metric specifications. This enables a separation between metric specification and information retrieval. Further design decisions enable a transparent execution optimization and an abstraction from the data sources of the underlying CRM database. "
  tags:
  - "optimization"
  - "information retrieval"
  - "software product quality"
  - "model-driven development"
  - "data-flow"
  - "source-to-source"
  - "database"
  - "abstraction"
  - "design"
  - "systematic-approach"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/grammel2007b"
  cites: 20
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "MetriKon 2007: DASMA Software Metrik Kongress"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "grammel2007b"
- title: "BugzillaMetrics: an adaptable tool for evaluating metric specifications on change requests"
  author:
  - name: "Lars Grammel"
    link: "http://larsgrammel.de"
  - name: "Holger Schackmann"
    link: "http://"
  - name: "Horst Lichter"
    link: "http://www-lufgi3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/lufgi/index.html"
  year: "2007"
  doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1294948.1294909"
  abstract: "To manage the evolution of software processes and products, it is essential to evaluate their current state and how it evolved. This information can be obtained by analyzing the data available in change request management (CRM) systems like Bugzilla. Metrics and charts on change requests are already available in current CRM systems. They provide information about common metrics, but their adaptability is limited. This paper describes a more flexible approach for the evaluation of metrics on change requests. The main characteristics of the tool presented in this paper are the separation between metric specification and data retrieval, an event driven algorithm that calculates time series data, and an abstraction of its data sources."
  links:
    doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1294948.1294909"
  tags:
  - "software process metrics"
  - "information retrieval"
  - "data-flow"
  - "software evolution"
  - "source-to-source"
  - "abstraction"
  - "systematic-approach"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/GrammelSL07"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 1
  pages: "35-38"
  booktitle: "9th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2007), in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 3-4, 2007"
  editor:
  - name: "Massimiliano Di Penta"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/massimiliano-di-penta"
  - name: "Michele Lanza"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/michele-lanza"
  publisher: "ACM"
  isbn: "978-1-59593-722-3"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "GrammelSL07"