Category: queueing

  • Waiting times and the task selection process

    When working on a project, what process do developers use to select the next task to implement? One way to answer this question is to ask the developers/managers working on the project. However, these people are not always available, and sometimes the actual process used is not what management say it is. Analysis of the…

  • Example of an initial analysis of some new NASA data

    For the last 20 years, the bug report databases of Open source projects have been almost the exclusive supplier of fault reports to the research community. Which, if any, of the research results are applicable to commercial projects (given the volunteer nature of most Open source projects and that anybody can submit a report)? The…