Lars Grammel, Holger Schackmann, Horst Lichter. BugzillaMetrics: an adaptable tool for evaluating metric specifications on change requests. In Massimiliano Di Penta, Michele Lanza, editors, 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. pages 35-38, ACM, 2007. [doi]
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.