TA-RE: an exchange language for mining software repositories

  • Authors:

  • Sunghun Kim;Thomas Zimmermann;Miryung Kim;Ahmed Hassan;Audris Mockus;Tudor Girba;Martin Pinzger;E. James Whitehead, Jr.;Andreas Zeller

  • Affiliations:

  • University of California, Santa Cruz, CA;Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany;University of Washington;University of Waterloo, Canada;Avaya labs;University of Berne, Switzerland;University of Zurich, Switzerland;University of California, Santa Cruz, CA;Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
  • Year:
  • 2006

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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.