Software Analytics and its Application in Software Development Practice

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               Joint Seminars
                       by
Dr. Mike LIANG,  Dr. Dongmei ZHANG and  Dr. Feng ZHAO

Date:   Thursday, 17 May 2012
Venue:  LTK (2/F, near lifts 31 or 32), HKUST
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Speaker:        Dr. Dongmei ZHANG
                MSRA

Title:          "Software Analytics and its Application in Software
                Development Practice"

Time:           3:30pm - 4:30pm

Abstract:

A huge wealth of various data exists in software lifecycle, including
source code, feature specifications, bug reports, test cases, execution
traces/logs, and real-world user feedback, etc. Data plays an essential
role in modern software development, because hidden in the data is
information about the quality of software and services as well as the
dynamics of software development. With various analytical and computing
technologies, software analytics is to enable software practitioners to
perform effective and efficient data exploration and analysis in order to
obtain insightful and actionable information for data-driven tasks in
engineering software and services. In this talk, I will introduce the
software analytics research in Microsoft Research Asia; and I will also
share our experiences on how we utilize our research results to help solve
some real problems in software development at Microsoft.


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Biography:

Dr. Dongmei Zhang is a Senior Researcher of Microsoft Research Asia
(MSRA). She is also the research manager of the Software Analytics group
at MSRA. Her research interests include data-driven software analysis,
machine learning, information visualization and large-scale computing
platform. She founded the Software Analytics group at MSRA in 2009. Since
then she has been leading the group to research and develop innovative
data exploration and analysis technologies to help improve the quality of
software and services as well as the software development productivity.
Her group collaborates closely with major product divisions in Microsoft,
and has developed, deployed and transferred software analytics tools that
have created high business impacts to Microsoft products and services.