Steve: Developing on the Edge - Datamining the bug database
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Datamining the bug database

My stance on developer surveys: go ask the tools is known.

I am pleased to see someone has done this with a lovely presentation on 10 years worth of Firefox bugzilla bugreps.

See that? Far more information than a survey provides, results of interest to developers, rather than just annoyance.

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On 20 January 2010 at 16: 04 Isabel Drost commented:
Something similar is currently being done in Saarbrücken at the research group of Andreas Zeller:
However they are mostly looking at information "hidden" in revision control systems.