Mining Software Repositories

The Mining Software Repositories (MSR) field analyzes the rich data available in software repositories, such as version control repositories, mailing list archives, bug tracking systems, issue tracking systems, etc. to uncover interesting and actionable information about software systems, projects and software engineering.

Definition

Herzig and Zeller define ”mining software archives” as a process to ”obtain lots of initial evidence” by extracting data from software repositories. Further they define ”data sources” as product-based artefacts like source code, requirement artefacts or version archives and claim that these sources are unbiased, but noisy and incomplete.^[1]

Data Repositories

Metrics

• Floss Mole
• MetricsGrimoire

Defect Prediction

• Promise Software Repository

Collection of Open Source Code

• merobase
• Open Hub
• GHTorrent Archived and indexed data from GitHub repositories

Tools

Experimentation Tools

Trace lab.

Metric Extraction Tools

• Columbus
• PMD

Mining Tools

• weka
• rapidminer

See also

• Software analytics
• Software maintenance
• Software archaeology

References

1. K. S. Herzig and A. Zeller, “Mining your own evidence,” in Making Software, pp. 517–529, Sebastopol, Calif., USA: O’Reilly, 2011.

External links

• Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, the main software engineering conference in the area.