The perils and pitfalls of mining SourceForge (2004)
by
James Howison
,
Kevin Crowston
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2004 |
| Citations: | 33 - 4 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Howison04theperils,
author = {James Howison and Kevin Crowston},
title = {The perils and pitfalls of mining SourceForge},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2004},
year = {2004},
pages = {7--11}
}
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Abstract
SourceForge provides abundant accessible data from Open Source Software development projects, making it an attractive data source for software engineering research. However it is not without theoretical peril and practical pitfalls. In this paper, we outline practical lessons gained from our spidering, parsing and analysis of SourceForge data.
