Not logged in.
Quick Search - Contribution
Contribution Details
Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
Published in Proceedings | Yes |
Title | Discovering loners and phantoms in commit and issue data |
Organization Unit | |
Authors |
|
Presentation Type | paper |
Item Subtype | Original Work |
Refereed | Yes |
Status | Published in final form |
Language |
|
Page Range | 4 - 14 |
Event Title | 23rd IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension |
Event Type | conference |
Event Location | Florence, Italy |
Event Start Date | May 18 - 2015 |
Event End Date | May 19 - 2015 |
Place of Publication | Florence, Italy |
Publisher | International Conference on Program Comprehension |
Abstract Text | The interlinking of commit and issue data has become a de-facto standard in software development. Modern issue tracking systems, such as JIRA, automatically interlink commits and issues by the extraction of identifiers (e.g., issue key) from commit messages. However, the conventions for the use of interlinking methodologies vary between software projects. For example, some projects enforce the use of identifiers for every commit while others have less restrictive conventions. In this work, we introduce a model called PaLiMod to enable the analysis of interlinking characteristics in commit and issue data. We surveyed 15 Apache projects to investigate differences and commonalities between linked and non-linked commits and issues. Based on the gathered information, we created a set of heuristics to interlink the residual of non-linked commits and issues. We present the characteristics of Loners and Phantoms in commit and issue data. The results of our evaluation indicate that the proposed PaLiMod model and heuristics enable an automatic interlinking and can indeed reduce the residual of non-linked commits and issues in software projects. |
Official URL | http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2820282&picked=prox |
Digital Object Identifier | 10.1109/ICPC.2015.10 |
Other Identification Number | merlin-id:11916 |
PDF File | Download from ZORA |
Export |
BibTeX
EP3 XML (ZORA) |