Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering

A success story in applying data science in practice

A. Bener*; B. Turhan^†; A. Tosun^‡; B. Caglayan^§; E. Kocaguneli^¶    * Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada^† University of Oulu, Finland^‡ Istanbul Technical University, Maslak Istanbul, Turkey^§ Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland^¶ Microsoft, Seattle, WA, United States

Abstract

In software engineering, the primary objective is delivering high-quality systems within budget and time constraints. Managers struggle to make many decisions under a lot of uncertainty. They would like to be confident in the product, team, and the processes. Therefore, the need for evidence-based decision making, a.k.a. data science and analysis, has been growing in the software development industry as data becomes ...