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Hackystat Version 8.1 released

After nine months of work, Version 8.1 of Hackystat is in public release.
The Hackystat development group is pleased to announce the public release of Hackystat 8.1. 
 
The previous public release occurred in January 2008, and we have made significant progress since then for Version 8.1: 
  • The user interface has been re-implemented. 
  • Multi-project telemetry is now available. 
  • An entirely new analysis technique called Software Project Portfolio Analysis is available. 
  • The Hackystat SensorBase service has been implemented with three different database back-ends: Apache Derby (the default), MS SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. 
  • The documentation is revised and improved. 
Please see the project home page for links to download the system and to various tutorials: 
 
 
We have several research projects underway at present: 
  • Shoaxuan Zhang is leading a classroom-based evaluation of Software Project Portfolio Analysis. 
  • Pavel Senin is leading a new analysis approach called "Trajectory Analysis", which allows comparison of project telemetries across time and automated detection of "similar trajectories". 
  • Ka Yee Leung is leading a new analysis technique for distributed awareness called "Boswell", which will use social media such as Twitter or IM to improve understanding of development status and developer activities. 
I would like to also mention that Hackystat was selected to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code, and we had three successful student projects. 
 
As always, we look forward to your comments and welcome your participation. 
 
Philip Johnson
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