Kostas Stroggylos PhD research plan
From Istlab
Following the research proposal, the research plan outline is as follows:
- Sep 07: Build a data / metric infrastructure (first version: May 07), probably publish something based on that experience
- Mar 08: Perform comparative analysis of refactoring usage on commercial and OSS projects (requires collaboration with software vendors), report results
- Sep 07: Perform comparative analysis of OSS and commercial software projects regarding software quality and process metrics, report results
- Mar 08: Validation of the above results, and the 'refactor to make adding new functionality easy' pattern in both worlds
- Sep 08: Start writing final thesis
More detailed plan to follow.