Overview of release engineering analytics

Modern release engineering in a nutshell–why researchers should care [1]

Impact of rapid release cycles on software development

The Impact of Switching to a Rapid Release Cycle on the Integration Delay of Addressed Issues-An Empirical Study of the Mozilla Firefox Project [2]

An empirical study of delays in the integration of addressed issues [3]

Do faster releases improve software quality?: an empirical case study of Mozilla Firefox [4]; or Understanding the impact of rapid releases on software quality [5]

References

[1]
B. Adams and S. McIntosh, “Modern release engineering in a nutshell–why researchers should care,” in Software analysis, evolution, and reengineering (SANER), 2016 IEEE 23rd international conference on, 2016, vol. 5, pp. 78–90.
[2]
D. A. da Costa, S. McIntosh, U. Kulesza, and A. E. Hassan, “The impact of switching to a rapid release cycle on the integration delay of addressed issues-an empirical study of the mozilla firefox project,” in Mining software repositories (MSR), 2016 IEEE/ACM 13th working conference on, 2016, pp. 374–385.
[3]
D. A. da Costa, S. L. Abebe, S. McIntosh, U. Kulesza, and A. E. Hassan, “An empirical study of delays in the integration of addressed issues,” in Software maintenance and evolution (ICSME), 2014 IEEE international conference on, 2014, pp. 281–290.
[4]
F. Khomh, T. Dhaliwal, Y. Zou, and B. Adams, “Do faster releases improve software quality?: An empirical case study of mozilla firefox,” in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE working conference on mining software repositories, 2012, pp. 179–188.
[5]
F. Khomh, B. Adams, T. Dhaliwal, and Y. Zou, “Understanding the impact of rapid releases on software quality,” Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 336–373, 2015.