Sampling Projects in GitHub for MSR Studies

• Published in: Proceedings (IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories. Online) pp. 560 - 564
• Main Authors: Dabic, Ozren, Aghajani, Emad, Bavota, Gabriele
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.05.2021
• Subjects: Computer languages; Data mining; GitHub; Licenses; sampling repositories; search; Software; Software development management

Almost every Mining Software Repositories (MSR) study requires, as first step, the selection of the subject software repositories. These repositories are usually collected from hosting services like GitHub using specific selection criteria dictated by the study goal. For example, a study related to...