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Empirical Research in Software Engineering
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Empirical Research in Software Engineering

by Ruchika Malhotra
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
498 pages
18h 20m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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kind of software repositories are suitable for extracting such kind of data. After a rigor-
ous study and analysis, we have chosen those software repositories that employ “Git” as
the VCS (http://git-scm.com). The reasons for selecting Git-based software systems are
as follows:
1. Git is the most popular VCS and the defect and change data can be extracted in
relatively easier ways through the change logs maintained by Git.
2. A large number of OSS systems are maintained through Git, including Google’s
Android OS.
Thus, by employing DCRS, we can easily obtain defect and change data for a large number
of OSS repositories that are based on Git VCS.
5.11.2 Motivation
Previous studies have shown that ...
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ISBN: 9781498719735