Findings from GitHub. Methods, Datasets and Limitations - MSR 2016 at ICSE

Findings from GitHub. Methods, Datasets and Limitations

Valerio Cosentino, Javier L. Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot

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Motivation

Motivation

Motivation

Empirical Methods Employed

Dataset Used

Limitations Reported

Methodology

Motivation

Empirical Methods Employed

Dataset Used

Limitations Reported

Methodology

Discussion

Methodology

Methodology

Title || Abstract || Keywords || IndexTerms INCLUDES

“GitHub” OR “Git hub” OR “github”

Results

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Empirical Methods Employed

Datasets Used

Datasets Used

Datasets Used

Limitations Reported

Limitations Reported

Discussion

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Discussion

Data Collection

Dataset Size

Replicability

Sampling

Longitudinal Studies

Variety of methodologies

Discussion

Data Collection

Dataset Size

Replicability

Sampling

Longitudinal Studies

Variety of methodologies

Freshness vs. Curation

Small-medium size

> 2/3 not providing dataset access

Most use non-probaility sampling

Scarcely used

Replication? Comparisons?

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Thanks!

http://tinyurl.com/GitHub-SystRev-Papers

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Subjetivity issues

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Discussion

Data Collection

Dataset Size

Replicability

Sampling

Longitudinal Studies

Variety of methodologies

Thanks!

http://tinyurl.com/GitHub-SystRev-Papers