Fingerprinting and Building Large Reproducible Datasets
Romain Lefeuvre, Jessie Carbonnel, Benoît Combemale, Houari A. Sahraoui, Stefano Zacchiroli · 2023
Obtaining a relevant dataset is central to conducting empirical studies in software engineering. However, in the context of mining software repositories, the lack of appropriate tooling for large scale mining tasks hinders the creation of new datasets. Moreover, limitations related to data sources that change over time (e.g., code bases) and the lack of documentation of extraction processes make it difficult to reproduce datasets over time. This threatens the quality and reproducibility of empirical studies.