Mining and recommending software features across multiple web repositories

  • Authors:
  • Yue Yu;Huaimin Wang;Gang Yin;Bo Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The "Internetware" paradigm is fundamentally changing the traditional way of software development. More and more software projects are developed, maintained and shared on the Internet. However, a large quantity of heterogeneous software resources have not been organized in a reasonable and efficient way. Software feature is an ideal material to characterize software resources. The effectiveness of feature-related tasks will be greatly improved, if a multi-grained feature repository is available. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for organizing, analyzing and recommending software features. Firstly, we construct a Hierarchical rEpository of Software feAture (HESA). Then, we mine the hidden affinities among the features and recommend relevant and high-quality features to stakeholders based on HESA. Finally, we conduct a user study to evaluate our approach quantitatively. The results show that HESA can organize software features in a more reasonable way compared to the traditional and the state-of-the-art approaches. The result of feature recommendation is effective and interesting.