CPSC 689-010 Software Ecosystems Spring 2025

Week 3 Class 6 Thu Jan 16 Posted: Jan 16

After Class

• Crossword is posted. Link now works.

Announcements

• Remote Teaching In anticipation of the forecasted cold and possible extreme wind chills, class on Tuesday, Jan. 21, will be remote. We will meet via Teams.
• Exercise scores in Brightspace
• Need volunteers for the papers on Tuesday
• On Friday, I will post papers for Thursday
• Have a crossword for this paper. I will post it after class.

Agenda

• The Promises and Perils of Mining Git by Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, David J. Hamilton, Daniel M. German, and Premkumar Devanbu. The 2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'09). Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2009, pp. 1-10, DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2009.5069475.
• See Brightspace for link to the slides

• Papers for Tuesday. Read these before class on Tuesday. I need a volunteer for each paper:

  • R. Di Cosmo and S. Zacchiroli, “Software Heritage: Why and How to Preserve Software Source Code”, in iPRES 2017 - 14th International Conference on Digital Preservation, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 2017, pp. 1–10.

  • Y. Ma et al., “World of code: enabling a research workflow for mining and analyzing the universe of open source VCS data”, Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 26, no. 2, p. 22, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1007/s10664-020-09905-9.

• Exercise 2: The Promises and Perils of Mining Git Crossword