Daniel Izquierdo

Biography

Daniel Izquierdo is co-founder of Bitergia: http://bitergia.com, a start-up focused on open source software analytics.He earned a PhD in free software engineering by the University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. He is in charge of developing new metrics and studies from the academy to the industry and the development of methodologies to assure the quality of the data provided in Bitergia's development dashboards.

Talks

Software development analytics for the masses

Track: Project and community driving

Software development analytics can help in the complex task of gaining knowledge on the performance and inner life of free / open source software development projects and their communities. The talk presents some examples of how real projects can be analyzed, and which lessons can be learned from this analysis.

Understanding the inner life of projects is of fundamental importance to developers, users and decision makers. But gaining this needed knowledge is a specialized, time-consuming and error-prone tasks.

Software development analytics comes to help you, by highlighting interesting aspects of the analyzed projects, tracking relevant patterns, and assisting in the early identification of problems and detection of trends. It can be used to study the structure of a community and its likely evolution, to detect bottlenecks in a code review process, to evaluate the impact of policies trying to improve bug fixing, to understand company participation in large projects, or to assist in due diligence when OSS is an important asset.

Last, but not least, it will be shown how free / open source software can be used for all this analytics process.