Predict change, manage risk

ForestFire provides valuable information for human resource management. With the social structure analysis of the SCM history, you can instantly identify the persons that are central to the development effort and take that into account when planning personnel changes.

Having all this information at your command when diving into a new code-base can save you considerable time, and even if you are familiar with the project - the regression analysis will help you plan your changes more efficiently.

Predict the impact of change

ForestFire consultation services come with the change propagation probability analysis plugin - SmokeDiver - that will help you see where the fire is most likely to spread and which developers you will need to put the fire out.

With our consulting services we provide a change prediction tool that can be used to estimate how large an impact a proposed software change will have. SmokeDiver mines ForestFire data and predicts change and exposes hidden risks and bad design.

ForestFire with SmokeDiver plugin can tell you how often files change together and who wrote those changes. You can run searches with adjustable limit on prediction propablity to tune the prediction to your data.

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