Understanding software evolution: the maisqual ant data set
Boris Baldassari, Philippe Preux · 2014
Software engineering is a maturing discipline which has seen many drastic advances in the last years. However, some studies still point to the lack of rigorous and mathematically grounded methods to raise the field to a new emerging science, with proper and reproducible foundations to build upon. Indeed, mathematicians and statisticians do not necessarily have software engineering knowledge, while software engineers and practitioners do not necessarily have a mathematical background.