Collecting Product Usage Data Using a Transparent Logging Component
Paper in proceeding, 2015

Continuous software engineering and experiments on released products have become very popular in modern software development. In this paper, we present a software component used to transparently log usage data from products in order to facilitate the use of customer-usage data by software developers. Such a component can aid with software maintenance and lifecycle management, but also provide help in software production and validation. We present a technical solution, the evaluation of its influence on the performance of a sample product, and an initial study on the acceptance of such a technology by regular users. Our results show that the mechanisms available in modern programming languages make it possible to integrate such a component without manual interventions in product code and that users are generally positive towards using this technology for logging the usage of work-related applications. We conclude that this type of technology can provide new possibilities for developers to adjust product planning based on the customer usage data.

Author

Thorvaldur Gautsson

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers)

Jacob Larsson

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers)

Miroslaw Staron

University of Gothenburg

International Conference on Advances and Trends in Software Engineering

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Software Engineering

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10/7/2017