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Alitheia Core: An extensible software quality monitoring platform

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Georgios Gousios,

Diomidis SpinellisAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '09: Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering

Pages 579 - 582

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070560

Published: 16 May 2009 Publication History

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Research in the fields of software quality and maintainability requires the analysis of large quantities of data, which often originate from open source software projects. Pre-processing data, calculating metrics, and synthesizing composite results from a large corpus of project artefacts is a tedious and error prone task lacking direct scientific value. The Alitheia Core tool is an extensible platform for software quality analysis that is designed specifically to facilitate software engineering research on large and diverse data sources, by integrating data collection and preprocessing phases with an array of analysis services, and presenting the researcher with an easy to use extension mechanism. The system has been used to process several projects successfully, forming the basis of an emerging ecosystem of quality analysis tools.

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Alitheia Core: An extensible software quality monitoring platform
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. System management
        Quality assurance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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May 2009

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