The List is the Process: Reliable Pre-Integration Tracking of Commits on Mailing ListsTechnical Track
A considerable corpus of research on software evolution focuses on mining changes in software repositories, but omits their pre-integration history.
We present a novel method for tracking this otherwise invisible evolution of software changes on mailing lists by connecting all early revisions of changes to their final version in repositories. Since artefact modifications on mailing lists are communicated by updates to fragments (i.e., patches) only, identifying semantically similar changes is a non-trivial task that our approach solves in a language-independent way. We evaluate our method on high-profile open source software (OSS) projects like the Linux kernel, and validate its high accuracy using an elaborately created ground truth.
Our approach can be used to quantify properties of OSS development processes, which is an essential requirement for using OSS in reliable or safety-critical industrial products, where certifiability and conformance to processes are crucial. The high accuracy of our technique allows, to the best of our knowledge, for the first time to quantitatively determine if an open development process effectively aligns with given formal process requirements.
Fri 31 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:30 | Mining Software Changes and PatternsTechnical Track / Demonstrations / Papers at Centre-Ville Chair(s): Ayşe Başar Ryerson University | ||
11:00 20mTalk | The List is the Process: Reliable Pre-Integration Tracking of Commits on Mailing ListsTechnical Track Technical Track Ralf Ramsauer OTH Regensburg, Daniel Lohmann Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wolfgang Mauerer OTH Regensburg / Siemens AG | ||
11:20 20mTalk | Graph-based Mining of In-the-Wild, Fine-grained, Semantic Code Change PatternsTechnical Track Technical Track Hoan Nguyen Iowa State University, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas, Danny Dig School of EECS at Oregon State University, Son Nguyen The University of Texas at Dallas, Hieu Tran The University of Texas at Dallas, Michael Hilton Carnegie Mellon University, USA | ||
11:40 20mTalk | Coming: a Tool for Mining Change Pattern Instances from Git CommitsDemos Demonstrations | ||
12:00 20mTalk | PatchNet: A Tool for Deep Patch ClassificationDemos Demonstrations Thong Hoang Singapore Management University, Singapore, Julia Lawall Inria/LIP6, Richard J Oentaryo McLaren Applied Technologies, Singapore, Yuan Tian Queens University, Kingston, Canada, David Lo Singapore Management University | ||
12:20 10mTalk | Discussion Period Papers |