Chapter 1
Past, Present, and Future of Analyzing Software Data
Christian Bird*; Tim Menzies†; Thomas Zimmermann* * Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA† Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Abstract
This chapter introduces the book and offers some context for the rest of the chapters. Specifically, we explore different definitions of ”software analytics” as well the historical evolution of the data science for software engineering.
Keywords
data science
software analytics
software engineering
history
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