========================================================================== ALERT's KESI - Knowledge Extractor for Structured Information

The Knowledge Extractor for Structured Information (or KESI) is a component of the ALERT platform [1] design to to gather information from source code repositories and from issue/bug tracking systems. Once the information has been gathered, is transformed into a format known by the rest of the components of the platform and published in an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

The information obtained by the KESI is critical in the following scenarios:

• Recommend a developer which bug to solve.
• Detect duplicated bugs.
• Let the developer know about buggy parts of the code.
• Identifying inactive developers and orphaned parts of the code

== Features ==

• Supports several types of repositories
  • Source Code Management Systems (SCM): Subversion
  • Issue tracking systems (ITS): Bugzilla
• Uses external tools for gathering information
  • Source Code Management Systems (SCM): CVSAnalY [2]
  • Issue tracking systems (ITS): Bicho [3]
• Incremental analysis

== Further work ==

• Support other types of repositories:
  • SCM: CVS, Git
  • ITS: JIRA
• Publish the changes in the repositories as events in the ESB

== Requirements ==

• Any implementation of Java Platform, Standard Edition (>= 1.6)
• JDBC driver for MySQL
• JavaMail API (>= 1.4.4)
• ALERT's BrokerClient (= 0.0.1)
• Petals ESB (= 3.1.1)
• CVSAnalY (>= 2.0) [2]
• Bicho (>= 0.9) [3]

== Configuration ==

TODO.

We may include here some info about:

• Sensors
• Properties files
• Paths (tools, pythonpath and so on)
• Petals ESB
• Tools
• Database configuration (for tools)

== License ==

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The full version of this license can be found in the file COPYING, distributed along with this program.

== Links ==

[1] http://www.alert-project.eu/ [2] https://libresoft.es/research/software/cvsanaly [3] https://libresoft.es/research/software/bicho