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TA-RE: an exchange language for mining software repositories

Authors:

Thomas Zimmermann,

Martin Pinzger,

E. James Whitehead, Jr.,

Andreas ZellerAuthors Info & Claims

MSR '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories

Pages 22 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/1137983.1137990

Published: 22 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Software repositories have been getting a lot of attention from researchers in recent years. In order to analyze software repositories, it is necessary to first extract raw data from the version control and problem tracking systems. This poses two challenges: (1) extraction requires a non-trivial effort, and (2) the results depend on the heuristics used during extraction. These challenges burden researchers that are new to the community and make it difficult to benchmark software repository mining since it is almost impossible to reproduce experiments done by another team. In this paper we present the TA-RE corpus. TA-RE collects extracted data from software repositories in order to build a collection of projects that will simplify extraction process. Additionally the collection can be used for benchmarking. As the first step we propose an exchange language capable of making sharing and reusing data as simple as possible.

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TA-RE: an exchange language for mining software repositories
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering

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MSR '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories

May 2006

191 pages

ISBN:1595933972

DOI:10.1145/1137983

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University Trier, Germany
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Harald Gall
University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Research in Motion RIM, Canada

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