Investigating Role of Data Mining in Software Engineering

Abstract

Companies that focus on software development produce vast volumes of data. Every stage of software development, from gathering requirements to ongoing upkeep, generates its own set of data. To better the software, efforts are undertaken to collect and store data produced in software repositories. Data mining techniques are used to the massive amounts of data found in software repositories in order to extract previously unseen patterns and insights. Researchers from the fields of Software Engineering and Data Mining have lately made this area of study a top priority. This research aims to examine the many uses of data mining in software engineering, the many types of software engineering data that can be mined, and the many data mining techniques that are available and have been used by researchers to solve the problems that this research focuses on. The next step is to use this classification to determine which subfield within software engineering has the highest scholarly interest.