This paper introduces a collaborative project OSSmole which collects, shares, and stores comparable data and analyses of free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) development f...
Abstract—In a young field, such as Mining Software Repositories (MSR), there is always a call for benchmarks so that researchers can compare their results against others. Thus i...
Abram Hindle, Israel Herraiz, Emad Shihab, Zhen Mi...
We present an open framework for visual mining of CVS software repositories. We address three aspects: data extraction, analysis and visualization. We first discuss the challenges...
Diversification of software assets through changing requirements impose a constant challenge on the developers and maintainers of large software systems. Recent research has addr...
Michael Fischer, Johann Oberleitner, Jacek Ratzing...
With the success of libre (free, open source) software, a new type of software compilation has become increasingly common. Such compilations, often referred to as ‘distributions...