July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
5h 27m
English
Problem: You don’t know what your bugs mean. Are you getting more or less with each release? Do reports get closed faster than in the past? What percentage of bugs are serious security issues?
Tracking your bug reports provides you with raw data, but that’s not very interesting on its own. To get the most from it, you have to analyze that data. The tools and statistical methods for data analysis are beyond the scope of this book. For now, let’s just say two things. One, you can answer a lot of questions with the basic descriptive statistics you learned in school. Two, a Jupyter notebook[24] and the pandas[25] data analysis toolkit are a great combination for shareable, interactive data analysis.
So why bother analyzing your bug ...