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Correctness of data mined from CVS

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Christopher Thomson,

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MSR '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories

Pages 117 - 120

https://doi.org/10.1145/1370750.1370777

Published: 10 May 2008 Publication History

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Source code repositories managed by the popular CVS are frequently mined by researchers to validate various hypotheses about how the development of a software product progressed. This paper presents a study where the development process of 17 student teams was followed. It will show that in an environment where the teams were permitted to manage their own CVS repositories that several errors emerged that could lead to the misinterpretation of a hypothesis. These were classified into three types: type one errors which relate to the non-use of the system; type two errors that emerged from the direct manipulation of the repository; and type three errors from the limitation of CVS not to record file name changes.

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Loukas AWoehrle MLangendoen KGeihs KRömer KMottola LPicco G(2011)On mining sensor network software repositoriesProceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications10.1145/1988051.1988057(25-30)Online publication date: 22-May-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1988051.1988057
Prause C(2009)Maintaining Fine-Grained Code Metadata Regardless of Moving, Copying and MergingProceedings of the 2009 Ninth IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation10.1109/SCAM.2009.20(109-118)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SCAM.2009.20

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Correctness of data mined from CVS
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Process validation

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MSR '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories

May 2008

162 pages

ISBN:9781605580241

DOI:10.1145/1370750

General Chair:
Ahmed E. Hassan
Queen's University, Canada
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Program Chairs:
Michele Lanza
University of Lugano, Switzerland
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Michael W. Godfrey
University of Waterloo, Canada

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Loukas AWoehrle MLangendoen KGeihs KRömer KMottola LPicco G(2011)On mining sensor network software repositoriesProceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications10.1145/1988051.1988057(25-30)Online publication date: 22-May-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1988051.1988057
Prause C(2009)Maintaining Fine-Grained Code Metadata Regardless of Moving, Copying and MergingProceedings of the 2009 Ninth IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation10.1109/SCAM.2009.20(109-118)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SCAM.2009.20

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