The List is the Process: Reliable Pre-Integration Tracking of Commits on Mailing Lists

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Autoren

  • Ralf Ramsauer
  • Daniel Lohmann
  • Wolfgang Mauerer

Externe Organisationen

  • Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
  • Siemens AG
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des Sammelwerks2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2019
UntertitelProceedings
Herausgeber (Verlag)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Seiten807-818
Seitenumfang12
ISBN (elektronisch)978-1-7281-0869-8
ISBN (Print)978-1-7281-0870-4
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Mai 2019
Veranstaltung41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2019 - Montreal, Kanada
Dauer: 25 Mai 201931 Mai 2019

Publikationsreihe

NameInternational Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)0270-5257
ISSN (elektronisch)1558-1225

Abstract

A considerable corpus of research on software evolution focuses on mining changes in software repositories, but omits their pre-integration history. We present a novel method for tracking this otherwise invisible evolution of software changes on mailing lists by connecting all early revisions of changes to their final version in repositories. Since artefact modifications on mailing lists are communicated by updates to fragments (i.e., patches) only, identifying semantically similar changes is a non-trivial task that our approach solves in a language-independent way. We evaluate our method on high-profile open source software (OSS) projects like the Linux kernel, and validate its high accuracy using an elaborately created ground truth. Our approach can be used to quantify properties of OSS development processes, which is an essential requirement for using OSS in reliable or safety-critical industrial products, where certifiability and conformance to processes are crucial. The high accuracy of our technique allows, to the best of our knowledge, for the first time to quantitatively determine if an open development process effectively aligns with given formal process requirements.

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The List is the Process: Reliable Pre-Integration Tracking of Commits on Mailing Lists. / Ramsauer, Ralf; Lohmann, Daniel; Mauerer, Wolfgang.
2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2019: Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. S. 807-818 (International Conference on Software Engineering).

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Ramsauer, R, Lohmann, D & Mauerer, W 2019, The List is the Process: Reliable Pre-Integration Tracking of Commits on Mailing Lists. in 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2019: Proceedings. International Conference on Software Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., S. 807-818, 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2019, Montreal, Kanada, 25 Mai 2019. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1902.03147, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2019.00088
Ramsauer, R., Lohmann, D., & Mauerer, W. (2019). The List is the Process: Reliable Pre-Integration Tracking of Commits on Mailing Lists. In 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2019: Proceedings (S. 807-818). (International Conference on Software Engineering). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1902.03147, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2019.00088
Ramsauer R, Lohmann D, Mauerer W. The List is the Process: Reliable Pre-Integration Tracking of Commits on Mailing Lists. in 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2019: Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2019. S. 807-818. (International Conference on Software Engineering). doi: 10.48550/arXiv.1902.03147, 10.1109/ICSE.2019.00088
Ramsauer, Ralf ; Lohmann, Daniel ; Mauerer, Wolfgang. / The List is the Process : Reliable Pre-Integration Tracking of Commits on Mailing Lists. 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2019: Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. S. 807-818 (International Conference on Software Engineering).
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